B's history

didn't put who we were did I!


We are a family, one mum (char) one dad(stew) and two little girls(Bethany 3& Eden just turned 1)


Eden is a healthy fine normal (as you get these days) little girl, now Bethany is a bit different.
Char had a bleed early on so we had an 8 weeks scan, everything seemed OK then.


We had another scan at 20 weeks which found that little B's ventricular were enlarged (there the bits in your brain that drains the fluid to other bits!)
We had a whole series of ultra scans and MRI scans and ended with a diagnoses of 

Hydrocephalus

Water on the brain

The pregnancy went to term and then another two weeks on top, she didn't want to come out  bless her! Charlotte was induced and even then B held on in there for another 24-26 hours untill she actually got  ventouse out (just before an emergency C-section) there was around 9 staff helping to get her out!

The day After!

The Day before!

Just like everything to do with B her birth was not straight forward! her placenta got stuck and Char had to go have an epidural and have it ripped out! This meant looking after B was going to be hard for the first night, but she wouldn't latch on to the breast.

We were in hospital for another 2 weeks trying to get her to feed, we tried different milks, teats, bottles and cups and nothing was working.

The Main doctor looking after us wanted B to go home and get some bugs as she had been in a strial environment since birth. Her head was growing at an alarming rate. We spent another 2 weeks at home trying to come to terms with this little girl. her head was still growing FAST