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My daughter Rebecca is starting a petition for screening of PPCM during pregnancy! It is the condition she developed when she was pregnant with her youngest son if undiagnosed this condition can be fatal to mothers! If you can sign and pass along I’d appreciate it!
Monica supported: Listen to Her Heart: Demand PPCM Screenings to Save Mothers’ LivesMedicaid should cover lactation services provided by a non-physician IBCLC. When I gave birth, I did everything I was told when it came to breastfeeding my healthy baby. I asked for extra help because I felt like her latch wasn’t right but the hospitals LC stuck her finger in baby’s mouth and I was assured she was eating enough. I wanted to get a second opinion with a local IBCLC who was highly recommended, but we have Medicaid, and there are no options available.
When we got home on baby’s first day, she seemed to be doing as well as in the hospital, but she was rapidly dropping weight(she was 9.4!) and not going through very many diapers. The lactation specialist at the hospital told be over the phone, that she was fine as long as she kept having that small but steady output, and nursed as often as baby wanted. The morning of her first appointment, she barely could wake up. She didn’t seem to want to breastfeed, but I tried that and a bottle of my milk anyway. We got to the doctor and she couldn’t get her to eat either. She was nearly unresponsive, even to pain stimuli she didn’t flinch. We rushed her to the children’s hospital where she was the ‘sickest child in the ER waiting room.’ They gave me a pump and bottles to try to sustain her while waiting hours for a room, since her heart and oxygen were no concern. When they admitted her and get her blood checked(which took 10minutes, 5 sites, and tons of poking and squeezing to get enough) they said she was severely dehydrated and depleted of essential nutrients.
3 days we had to stay in PICU, pumping, force feeding, supplementing, and weighing diapers, while my newborn recovered from what easily could’ve been prevented by the support and thorough guidance of a professional IBCLC. Instead of having the readily available help with baby’s latch with a very slight tongue tie issue, we had that hospital stay, followed by ENT appointments weeks later. In the meantime I had reached out and begged for help from other moms who had initial issues feeding their brand new babies with even severe tie issues, and they taught me what their IBCLCs had taught them from the start. That’s what saved my baby. I needed that from the start. Our insurance wouldn’t help. Every mother and every baby needs that help.
Samantha supported: Urge Medicaid to Cover and Reimburse IBCLC-Provided Lactation ServicesAfter many second trimester losses due to placenta related issues that may have been caught early enough, I fully support any & all attention for the placenta as currently our medical field hardly looks at it.
Jorlyn supported: End Preventable StillbirthMy first daughter was still born at 28 weeks. It was a normal healthy pregnancy until my wife felt decreased movement. We went to the ER and there was no heartbeat. Her placenta was extremely small. There needs to be more awareness around this in the USA
Matthew supported: End Preventable Stillbirthwe lost our beautiful little boy at 36.6 weeks a week before meeting him all because the medical practice didn’t measure his umbilical cord even when i told them repeatedly that he did not move as much as he should all the signs were there we are shattered 😭 this was completely avoidable this should not be happening this day and age with medical technology and all they could say was sorry unfortunately they don’t measure the umbilical cord while it’s usually the placenta that can be result of stillbirths i don’t think people realise it’s also just as very important the cord is checked. As a result of our little
boy growing bigger towards the end of the pregnancy the cord was too short and he got stuck 😔
Lisell supported: End Preventable StillbirthMy son, Ezra, was stillborn on 6.1.2020. His death was preventable, and that will haunt me until the day I die. Please save other families from my fate, and update care standards to include EPV and updated fetal movement guidelines (e.g. Count the Kicks guidelines).
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