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PAULA

josie1204 - 03:12am Mar 30, 2012 EST

My baby Paula was born at 25the weeks. Since her birth my home was the hospital. Seeing her fight to survive day by day. Since her birth she had intestinal problems struggling with her feeds. She went through two surgery her heart murmur and her intestine. Once she had her intestine surgery she was doing well. I carried her everyday and every minute I could we did kangaroo everyday. Paula was a joy and always fought with the nurses and R.T she would hate her nasalcanela and her feeding tube. She would always take it off and make the nurses run to put it back on. The nurses would just laugh since she always did what she wanted and with her small body weighing 3pnds and 6ounces she would put a fight while doing her cares. The nurses loved her so much she caught their attention since she was such a fighter. My baby was doing great doctors would tell me she will be coming home soon. After 2mnths my baby died unexpected within minutes. She died on march 17 2012 morning. Doctors say it was a disease called NEC which we never new she had. Now all our dreams are gone and I can't cope with her death since doctors thought she was doing great and coming home in 3 weeks. I miss my baby and still in shock I keeping thinking its a bad dream. She was going to be taken off her oxygen already and all she had to do was grow. I feel alone and confused since I don't understand what happen. My husband and I are trying to cope but its hard. She was our first baby after trying 6yrs and now she is gone. My little angel.

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