April’s mother, Joy was Bobby’s first wife and was also a friend of mine. When she and Bobby started dating, she came into our circle of friends instead of Bobby leaving, so we all became friends.
During her pregnancy with April, Joy was diagnosed with toxemia, which is also known as preeclampsia or pregnancy induced high blood pressure. It causes you to retain water and lots of other nasty symptoms. It can cause major complications if not treated. Joy was advised to drink lots of water, not to eat salt and to stay away from junk foods. Unfortunately, she didn’t heed what the doctor said and constantly ate junk foods, especially frozen pizzas.
Bobby, Joy, Bobby’s sister Anita, her boyfriend and several other people went to Daytona for the 4th of July. Joy was about 6 months along and her doctor advised her that she should not go but she went anyway. While there she started to retain fluids and by the time they got home, she was very sick. The doctor put her into the hospital saying that she needed to deliver the baby or she would die.
Bobby and Joy were told that if Joy delivered naturally, then her body would expel most of the toxins she had built up but they gave the baby very little chance of surviving. If Joy had to have a cesarean section, then there was a possibility that Joy and the baby would not make it. Joy was induced to try and make her deliver the baby naturally, but it began to put too much of a strain on her and the baby and so they decided that the doctor would perform a cesarean. Because of this, there was very little strain put on April and she managed to survive against the odds.
April was 1 lb. and 11 ounces when she was born and breathed on her own from the beginning. All they did was give her a little oxygen. She lost a little weight but then started to gradually gain weight daily. April was the first baby to ever come home from Northside Hospital before she weighed 5 lbs. She weighed about 4 and a half pounds, but had been healthy from the day she was born so they decided that there was no need to keep her.
April was so small that she would fit in the palm of Bobby’s hand and her head could go all the way into a small styrofoam coffee cup. Due to the fact that she missed her last 3 months of development in the womb, she was a little slow learning to walk, talk and to learn some of the other skills that come naturally, but other than that, she had no problems.
Today she is a happy healthy adult with a daughter of her own.
During her pregnancy with April, Joy was diagnosed with toxemia, which is also known as preeclampsia or pregnancy induced high blood pressure. It causes you to retain water and lots of other nasty symptoms. It can cause major complications if not treated. Joy was advised to drink lots of water, not to eat salt and to stay away from junk foods. Unfortunately, she didn’t heed what the doctor said and constantly ate junk foods, especially frozen pizzas.
Bobby, Joy, Bobby’s sister Anita, her boyfriend and several other people went to Daytona for the 4th of July. Joy was about 6 months along and her doctor advised her that she should not go but she went anyway. While there she started to retain fluids and by the time they got home, she was very sick. The doctor put her into the hospital saying that she needed to deliver the baby or she would die.
Bobby and Joy were told that if Joy delivered naturally, then her body would expel most of the toxins she had built up but they gave the baby very little chance of surviving. If Joy had to have a cesarean section, then there was a possibility that Joy and the baby would not make it. Joy was induced to try and make her deliver the baby naturally, but it began to put too much of a strain on her and the baby and so they decided that the doctor would perform a cesarean. Because of this, there was very little strain put on April and she managed to survive against the odds.
April was 1 lb. and 11 ounces when she was born and breathed on her own from the beginning. All they did was give her a little oxygen. She lost a little weight but then started to gradually gain weight daily. April was the first baby to ever come home from Northside Hospital before she weighed 5 lbs. She weighed about 4 and a half pounds, but had been healthy from the day she was born so they decided that there was no need to keep her.
April was so small that she would fit in the palm of Bobby’s hand and her head could go all the way into a small styrofoam coffee cup. Due to the fact that she missed her last 3 months of development in the womb, she was a little slow learning to walk, talk and to learn some of the other skills that come naturally, but other than that, she had no problems.
Today she is a happy healthy adult with a daughter of her own.
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