The Mitchells: Fun to Compare Pregnancies

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Fun to Compare Pregnancies

Here are Stephanie and I with our first pregnancies. She was pregnant with Avery (I think she was 4-5 months along) and I was preggers with Ella (and I delivered in 10 days!!).

Second pregnancies are a little closer. Stephanie with Pistacio (another little girl...and that's not her real name, just what we are calling her right now) who is due towards the end of April. Here I am about 5-6 weeks from delivering William.

Wow...this makes me realize how much bigger my belly could get in the next month...holy moly.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: How much fun to go through two pregnancies together!!! You both look absolutely beautiful! Brooke is waiting to meet her Prince William =); 6:45 PM
Unknown said...: It is really is crazy how much the body grows in the last month!; 11:39 AM

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Ella's Story

Elizabeth "Ella" Hope Mitchell was born on May 10, 2006 at 3:45pm...by 5am the following morning the whole world turned upside down. The doctors came in to inform us that while Ella had been resting in the Newborn Nursery, she began to have irregular breathing and seizures. It was touch and go for the next 3 days. We were told several times that she probably would not make it alive through the ordeal. She had contracted Group Beta Strep which had resulted in meningitis. Due to the seizures and the infection we had no idea what the long-term effects would be. After Ella spent a long and trying month in the NICU we came home to see where the effects of her illness had left us all.

A few months later, almost a year, we had an official long-term diagnosis...Ella has Cerebral Palsy. She is a happy and loving child. She struggles with physical delays, cognitive delays and all sorts of things that have come and go.

2-eye surgeries to correct lazy eye
3-EEG's to check for siezures
5-MRI/MRV/MRA to check actual brain damage
3-CT scans for brain stuff
1-G-button/feeding tube surgically put in (and then Ella removed herself)
10 (approx)-Swallow Studies
1-Scoliosis Study
2-Kidney Reflux tests
2-Upper GI tests
1-24 hr reflux test
8-hearing tests
countless UTI tests
seemingly a million developmental tests
a hand splint
bath chair
adaptive stroller/wheelchair
stander
gait trainer
AFO's

ha, not to mention all of the therapist...currently: OT 2X/week, PT 3X/week (2 land, 1 horse), ST 3X/week (2 oral motor, 1 speech), develomental 1X/week, vision 2x/month, and we are about to start ACCDAT camp.

As of 4/8/2009.