Thank you for your post! It found me just in my time of need. It helped me to realize, I have one beautiful, healthy, amazing daughter. Here's her story...
She was conceived very easily - 1st month charting, 3rd month off BCP. Fairly easy pregnancy - along w/ the normal discomforts. (Horrible labor/birth story - but for a later time.) Beautiful baby girl - so amazing!! She was born with what we originally thought was a mark from the scalp electrode during labor. Turned out to be a small posterior encephalocele. Which is an area in her skull that did not fuse shut - and she had a portion of brain, spinal fluid and membrane - coming through that opening. When she was 10wks old - I handed my baby away to a nurse who took her for brain surgery. The amazing neurosrgeon made it seem very simple and very common. Basically opened a window into her brain, cut the extra brain tissue away pulled bone marrow out of the surrounding skull, placed over the opening and closed up her head. Almost exactly 3 years later - the only thing that would even make you wonder - if the 2 inch scar - that you can only see if I part her long, beautiful brown hair to make pig tails. She is amazing in every way, no effects at all!!!!
All this to say, thank you for your post....I remember this story and all that it involved and I am SOOO
thankful for the precious gift of my child.