HUGE PREGNANCY UPDATE! | ALL THE INFO ON GASTROSCHISIS BIRTH DEFECT 

73 year old granny here. You are doing great and I'm admiring you and your confident, upbeat attitude. I'm with you all the way, girl!

My motto for my son's pregnancy was "There will be a time to worry, but now is not that time." And that got me through so much. One step at a time. One appointment, one scan, one thing. You guys got this!

I know I already commented but you’re doing amazing mama! I was born 5 weeks early with Gastroschisis, my mom had me at 18 and I had surgery right away! One closure surgery. 1 month in the NICU. Doing amazing now as a 23 year old nurse!

So interesting. I told you about my nephew who was born with Gastroschisis. They did not know he had it until birth and he was full-term! He had surgery with a relatively small scar. He is now 19. He had no complications. He is also 6"2'. I hope your daughter's journey goes as smoothly as his did! 🙏

Anna, your story speaks so much to me. My daughter was born with a genetic disorder that we were not aware of during pregnancy. That came with two heart defects that were not detected during pregnancy. Hearing you find out all of this information during pregnancy, meeting with specialists, and all of that is giving me so much hope for you and so proud of you as a mom! You are already advocating for your daughter in such a big way and that is life changing and alters the outcome in so many ways. You are amazing!

I am very sure your calmness and just your “presence” in this will be so beneficial for momma’s that see it in the future. I had different issues, but had to have an emergency C-section at 29 weeks. I have a lot of buried issues concerning it all. You even calmed me. Lol I hope that makes sense. Your whole energy and everything just screams “it’s all going to be ok”. I really don’t think anybody else could have delivered all this info better. This will be a blessing to so many, I just know it. Prayers for all y’all as always. Thanks for educating in the best way. 💙💙

Praying for you Anna and the baby. Remember, doctors can do wonders nowadays. 🙏

I’m so so glad that you found a great Dr to answer all your questions and bring you some peace about all of this. I am also an RN (not tons of OB , L&D), I totally understand your anxiety about not having a plan … we are built for tasks, lists , plans etc etc. I have faith that you & Luke and your precious little girl will do fabulous no matter what scenario plays out. It also sounds like you have an amazing team of Dr’s and nurses supporting you and your sweet girl. The surgery team consult will be great preparation so you go in to delivery with as much knowledge as possible. Sending you all continued love, prayers and encouragement💕 from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Dad/granpa is here for you and anxiously waiting to get to see and hold my newest granddaughter. Love you much.

Thank you for sharing your story! It will help so many other moms going through the same or similar situation! You do a great job telling your story! ❤

You're doing soooo well centering yourself and staying in the moment ❤ Great job Mama. It's so much info to absorb and you're taking it all in and taking it in stride. My heart really feels like everything is going to work out so well. You're working, your doing self care, your educating yourself and all while being a Mama already. You are a powerhouse, all of your feelings are valid and we're all here for you through this special pregnancy with baby girl💞

This will help so many moms ❤ thank you for sharing! Lots of prayers for your whole family and little one!!

You are so freaking bomb for sharing your experience & vulnerability. It will absolutely help ppl. Just proves what an awesome mom you are, and what an awesome human you are. Luke too. I know he doesn't wanna be on RU-vid and I can't say I blame him, but that he's supportive of you sharing... he deserves all the credit in the world for that.

You have a great positive attitude. Prayers to you and baby and family ❤️

Praying for this sweet baby! One suggestion for the nicu for you is to have a notebook/journal. You’ll be getting so much information and I found myself forgetting what I had been told and once we were home I wish I would’ve been able to remember everything.

This was so informative! Thank you 💕

sending love and prayers to You, Luke, and baby girl to be! (and your kids as well) glad that you are remaining so positive! Take care

So happy to hear your update. You are handling it very well. Enjoy this pregnancy! Sounds like your doctors have done a really great job thus far. Sending love from KCMO! ❤

Anna, you are a special young lady sharing all of this to help others. Your daughter is so lucky to have you. Getting to meet all the Dr.s and having a plan is important. I wish you well. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. All is going to be fine..

I’m so proud of you. You are going to do so good. You and Luke are wonderful parents. Praying for you all.

As someone who personally lived this with my daughter just a couple years ago I think you explained everything extremely well and spot on!! 😊

You’re doing it Mama!! Your baby girl is soo lucky she got such an amazing, dedicated mama! I was high risk for different reasons and felt like I lived at the hospital starting at 32wks between the NSTs, BPPs, bloodwork etc BUT it made me feel so secure and at ease that should anything change we could deliver, made a big difference to my mental health & I hope it does for you too! Sending love and prayers✨

Many prayers for you precious baby girl🙏

My son failed EVERY single NST from weeks 32-35 then started passing. He always passed the BPP. Then I read and confirmed by my doctor that it's really hard for baby's to pass at 32 weeks just because of their size. I left in tears so many times until I learned that! Just FYI in case you run into that too!

You have such an amazing attitude but I know this is not easy at all. She is so lucky to have you and Luke as her parents! Wishing you the best of luck the rest of your pregnancy.

I watched Christa Horath’s vlog and it has a great outcome if that’s the video you are talking about on yt. Praying for you and baby girl! You are doing great mama!!! 💗

My cousins foster daughter had this condition at birth. She had a 3 week NICU stay and is now a healthy 3 year old! Praying for you and baby girl! 💗

I had to go thru all of these things when pregnant with my third child. She had iugr ( she did not have what your daughter has only iugr) and they could never tell me anything for sure until she was born which was scary but she is a very healthy, normal sized 6 year old! I was monitored in Little Rock and the specialists there were amazing! My daughter was born at 35 weeks, 3 pounds 12 ounces. The appointments could get overwhelming especially bc I had horrible anxiety but it will go by fast. I also had steroid shots at 32 weeks I believe to help lung development. I know this isn’t the same as what you are going thru but just giving hope that sometimes going thru the scary stuff turns out better than you’d hoped❤️ my daughter never needed oxygen or anything just an 18 day nicu stay until she reached 4 pounds bc they will not let them go home before that. These babies are strong! Also prayer! Lots of prayer❤also I keep adding things but I had two vaginal births and she was a C-section bc we tried vaginal and she wasn’t able to handle it. I was so terrified and didn’t want a C-section but it was a breeze. Don’t be afraid either way.

My youngest had a VSD, thankfully it closed before she turned 3(which is normal). Thank you for including the defect, well talking about it. I knew it was a defect but never knew how extensive it could be.

I had a gastro baby 4 years ago 💚 also OBSESSED with the name you gave her, so cute. Congratulations 🎀

Continues 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for y’all and the baby fabulous video

I love that zipper metaphor! Continued prayers Anna 💛 always here for you!

HUGE props to the specialist. She seems amazing. That zipper analogy is freaking brilliant. I think I might understand my own genetic defect better now and it's not this diagnosis lol.

It was really hard going through my pregnancy with my boy who had gastroschisis and I totally feel you on there being basically NOTHING on RU-vid from people’s personal journeys. It was too mentally difficult for me to make a video myself during his journey so thank you for having the strength to talk about your journey while going through it!

My son was born with gastroschisis. I had him at 35 weeks because they thought he had stopped growing. They weren’t able to put all of his intestines in with the first surgery bc he was so small (around 5 pounds) so they put a bag on it and did a second surgery a few weeks later. He ended up being in the NICU for 5 weeks. When he came home we did basically physical therapy and he did great. He grew up to be a normal sized athletic kid. Unfortunately, at 14-years-old (last October) he had a bowel obstruction caused by the scar tissue. That was a long scary road but he is doing much better now. 💗 Praying everything goes as smoothly as possible for your baby girl. Gastroschisis babies are strong little warriors. I’m so proud of my son. Big hugs. 💗

I've seen stories on T.V. about gastroschisis. The babies all did well. I'm sure your baby will be okay.

Anna you are a wonder I am praying that everything keeps going as well as it is going now praying for all of you and the little one

My dad birthday is August 17 and my husband August 3 both amazing humans and extremely strong your sweet little girl will be strong and reselant and a fighter

I had a 31 week 1 day baby with IUGR. He was 2 pounds one ounce. He had no real issues and had room air only. He is five years old now and totally fine.

Anna you and Luke where meant to have this baby god has given you another blessing. I feel you are alittle calmer and relief in this video. You are due on my birthday August 17th. I know you won't go until then but i wanted you to know. My son and his wife are due in a few weeks i can't wait to be a grammie is what i want to be called. God bles and still be praying for you and baby girl and Luke and the hole family.❤

I had to wait 2 weeks to hold Maverick and 32 days to hold Scout. Unfortunately with Scout, it was the first and last time. But, they should start kangaroo care as soon as absolutely possible once she's stable. My NICU called it mommy medicine because most babies stats are better then being held by their mama.

Praying for baby girl!! Did they mention anything about keeping her cord blood just in case? Or maybe finding out babies blood type and see if Luke or someone in your family could store blood for her if God forbids she needs a blood transfusion or anything? Just a thought.

How many weeks along are you when they first found out about this? Hope everything goes well for you and baby ❤

Vaginal is almost always safer.