Hope you are all having a wonderful New Year! This new year has already been filled with many blessings, as well as challenges. I emailed many of you to pray for a special little baby, so I just wanted to give you an update.
Last Tuesday, a mother came to clinic with ecclampsia. She was at the end of her pregnancy, but had not had any prenatal care. She began seizing at 7am, but she wasn't brought into our clinic until 11am. Despite medications and CPR, she passed away. Fortunately, I was able to do an emergency c-section after she died. I did not think there was any hope for that baby given all the circumstances, but I went ahead with the stat c-section anyway just in case the baby was still alive. When I delivered this full term little girl, she was blue and floppy. I thought for sure she was dead, but amazingly she still had a heartbeat. The rest of the team worked on her resuscitation. And now I'm happy to say that she is off oxygen, taking formula feeds, and hopefully will be going home soon. She truly is a miracle baby!
Thank you all so much for praying for her. Please continue to pray that she will not have permanent brain damage. Please also continue to pray for her family as they have lost a wife and mother. And that they would respond to our Father's love that they have now heard about as a result of this hospitalization.
Love from Bangladesh,
Christel
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