Brooklyn Janeil Rodgers

On June 24 2005 we were once again headed to the hospital to welcome into the world another little bundle. This time they were going to induce labor because they were so sure that the baby was going to be pushing 9 lbs. Boy were they wrong. After laying around for a few hours, at 3:18 that afternoon we again welcomed another teeny tiny little baby into the world...weighing 4lbs. 13 ozs, and 18 in. long Brooklyn Janeil Rodgers made her grand entrance. I should have know from the way she made her entrance that she would be my child that pushed my every button. From before day one, she has made a point to make herself noticed. When I was 17 weeks pregnant with her I had appendisitis and had to have my appendix removed, a week or so before that I had slipped and broken my tail bone. They told me that they got my appendix out right at the right time, if we would have waited until the morning it would have ruptured and there is no telling if either of us would have survived. So needless to say things were off to a rough start. Then when she was born she was not breathing. Needless to say this was the most helpless I have ever felt in my life. Even when she started to breath she wasn't able to cry do to the intubation tube they had down her throat, so I had no idea if she was breathing or not. Everything ended up going okay, and we got to go home the next afternoon. Unfortunately we did find out within the next few months that she too has the same chromosome disorder as Stetson. I was devistated at first that she too would have all the struggles that Stetson has had to deal with, but we have done fairly well....after all that is our "normal". I love her to death, and she has tested my every last nerve, but I can not imagine life without her. Brooklyn too has been through more in her short time on this earth than anyone normally goes through in a live time. She has had some sever stomach problems which were finally fixed when she was 14 months old. She has had 2 scopes in hopes of fixing her stomach (they both failed), she then had another stomach surgery where they wrapped her stomach around her esophagus preventing her from ever throwing up again. This is nice when she has the flu, she never throws up, but it does have its down sides she chokes easily and if she does have the flu she retches and gags risking tearing her stomach or esophagus. She has also had ears tubes, and has an under active pituitary and is also missing a membrane in her brain. She takes thyroid medication, and a cortisol medication for her immune system, and recieves nightly growth hormone injections. Needless to say life in our house is anything but normal, but we deal day by day and cherish every single moment we are given to spend with our kids. I haven't put Brooklyn in school yet, but she does attend a developmental center that she absolutely loves.