My ex-co-Leader (LLL) had her third baby on Sunday morning.  On Wed. morning
she called me from the children's hospital, where the baby had been admitted
with a diagnosis of two congenital heart defects and kidney failure (due to
heart defects? or kidney problems on their own?)
The baby was on time, decent sized though smaller than her first two.  Baby did
not nurse well in the first two days.  Placenta was small, too, though not
drastically so.  Friends reported the baby seemed "floppy."
NOTE - AGAINST all LLL principles and against the recommendations of everyone,
she had no prenatal care and had an unattended home-birth -- NOT MY IDEA  --
please don't flame her (via me) over this -I mention this only so you know why
the small placenta and floppiness weren't flags to someone!  The goal right
now is to get this baby going on the upswing again.
Question is, what resources you y'all suggest for me (and her) that would deal
with the possibility of IUGR and what all it might entail as far as other
complications.  Heart defects I can handle; kidney and other things I don't
know a whole lot about.
Beth Hilleke
2425 Spring Garden St.
Charleston, SC 29414-5535
803-556-6131
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