by Amy Collier | Feb 24, 2017 | Religious Perspectives, Skeletal Dysplasia, Stories
Looking back now, I realize how naïve I was. by T.T. In a week, we will be marking one year since we said goodbye, and I wanted to reflect upon it all. It took nearly nine months for me to even start to come to terms with what happened to our family in the last year,...
by JD | Mar 6, 2015 | Induction/L&D, Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Every year we have cake on her birthday in her honor. By S.O. Before going in for my first sonogram, I dropped my other two children off at my parents’ house. My sisters and their children were there, along with my pregnant sister-in-law, and everybody was...
by JD | Mar 1, 2015 | Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) results from a lack of collagen and causes very weak bones which are easily fractured. In severe cases (type II) even a fetus in the amniotic sac will have bone fractures as early a 16 weeks gestation. Infants with OI type II are often not...
by Amy Collier | Mar 1, 2015 | Diagnoses
Achondrongenesis Type II is a form of skeletal dysplasia involving short limbs, a small chest with short ribs and underdevelopment of the lungs. It can also involve the failure of spinal and pelvic bones to properly form, and an enlarged abdomen. Facial malformation...
by JD | May 9, 2012 | Induction/L&D, Stories, Thanatophoric Dysplasia
The incidence is approximately 1 in 10,000 births and is the most common lethal bone dysplasia. By Doug I only wanted a healthy child (ten fingers and ten toes was what I always told everyone that asked, and I meant it) but my wife was really hoping for a girl. You...
