can I ask for your prayers please...?

May I ask for some prayers for my cousin and family, please? I'm not sure if I have said anything about the situation, but my cousin Bethany was pregnant with twins, and my aunt and them are strict mormans. When Beth first told them she was pregnant, both my aunt and uncle flipped out and disowned her for the first 3 or 4 months of the pregnancy.....(she had a one night stand with her roommates brother). Well, after a while, my aunt finally got over herself and my uncle has just recently gotten over himself enough to allow her to move back into their house and carry on as a family. My cousin is 20, or 21, I think. So anyways, about 4 months into her pregnancy, she had her first sonogram, and it showed twins, possibly triplets. We later found out that there was only 2 in there. So she carried on with the whole thing and my aunt became this huge "grandma of the year" sort of person...but it was kinda fake to all of us, but I won't get into all that. Anyways, Beth was due May 18th, I believe. About 3 weeks ago, she started having contractions, and she went in to the hospital....they gave her a shot to hold it off, and then sent her home. From that moment on, she should have been on strict bed rest because her cervix was so thin that it coud have caused infection, but the doctor just sent her home. Since that, she has had 2 sonograms a week. There is one boy, and one girl, meaning fraternal twins....which means there are two sacks, twice as much water, two placentas, and so on. Well, Beth had no more room, AT ALL...plain and simple--->causing her cervix to start thinning. Now, not t gros yo all out, but there is this thing that they can do for people with thin cervixs. It is honestly, this huge stitch in the cervix which prevents it from thinning and further, then they take it out when you get into active birth. They should have stitched her cervix up, but they didn't do that either! **She has Keiser**<---enough said! So onto where we need the paryers....she was in a lot of pain yesterday, and she went in to the hospital, where my aunt said that she was not leaving until she had those babies. They hooked her all up, reluctantly, and had the heart monitors on the babies. Wed. nights, my mom and aunt bowl on this bowling league together. They were at bowling, and my uncle calls my moms cell and told her to tell my aunt to get to the hosptial emmediately. Didnt say anythign else. She rushes out of there, and we call an hour later to find out that they were having troubles finding the little boys heart beat on all the monitors. My aunt was in histerics, and they had given Beth enough drugs to put her out, bigtime. Now, the little boy had been over a poung lighter than his sister a month or so back. They were watching him closely. Two weeks ago, they took his weight, and he was at 2 lbs, 1 oz. They took his weight yesterday, and he was up to 3 lbs, 8 oz. He was doing REALLY well! Actve, getting stringer, bigger, and so on. So we r all kinda worried, and decide to give it some time before we got too worried. My mom calls back an hour later, to find out that there still is no heartbeat. The little girl is doing fine, but needs a little more time inside...so they are going to take both of them on Friday via c-section. Now, to add to the story, when I was 9 years old, my cousin, who was 11 months older than I, passed away because she had an outragiously high temperature, got medi-flighted to sac childrens hospital, to be dead 3 days later after Keiser doctors refused to cover her with blankets. Odviously, my aunt was devistated. It was her youngest child of 3, and we r a very close family. This is now the second major loss for my aunt, and my papa is still not doing well. They r pumping Beth full of steroids in hopes to develop the girls lungs better before Friday, but they are not saying how well it will work or how healthy she will even be. Can you guys please keep my cousin and family in your prayers.....they need it very badly! I thank you all soooo much!

 

Hey everyone. After the day I've had, it was sure nice to see how badly LA got wamped on!!! Man, that made me smile!!

So here is an update. And I'm sorry if I am boring you guys with all of this, but it is kinda therapy for me to just talk about it, so I kinda just need to, and you can just not read it...k? So anyways............They still have no heart beat for the little boy (his name was going to be Austin, btw) They did a sonogram, and it confirmed that there was, in fact, nothing left in his tiny body that was willing to work any longer. My aunt called today on all of the arrangements for the burial service. (they decided to not have a memorial service, instead, just burial) Turns out that when they burried my cousin, they bought a full size plot. Well, Lisa only being 9 years old, doesn't take up the entire space, so they think there is plenty of room to put a baby's casket in right below hers. This made things so much greater for my aunt and cousin. The only good that we can take from this situation is that Lisa now has Austin to watch over and have fun with. Austin has a great mother-like figure to look up to. They told my aunt that it was also possible to just add more rock to Lisa's headstone and make both headstones one. And onto the really good news: That little girl is STUBBORN! I was at the hospital all night really, and man, she is supposed to show a sleeping pattern on the monitor for 20 minutes straight...she lasts about 8 minutes in a calm state. She keeps kickin and movin and she is supposedly getting healthier by the minute. They are shooting tons of steroids into Beth in hopes to make the little girl's lungs stronger before she comes. They shot her with some tonight at about 7, and they say it takes 12 hours for them to actually get to the baby, so they are hoping that she doesn't progress naturally enough to have the babies before 7 in the morning. She has started to progress naturally, which is good, but she's only at 1 centimeter right now, so she should make the deadline just fine. We are all on call, the NICU doctor is on call, the baby girl is on canstant monitor (Beth is mad because she cant get up to walk around...lol) She seems to be doing very well. Last thing....they are hoping Beth will deliver vaginally, and if she does, then the boy will come first. He is completely lifeless, and they have been told that (this is kinda gorey, I'm really sorry) he has already started deteriorating, and that he won't look very pretty, at all. She has the choice of seeing him and holding him, but she can't for very long because of his deterioration. its really sad. But things are looking brighter today, and things will work out in the end. In case you haven't noticed....my family is VERY VERY CLOSE, and in times of need, we stick together like rocks and don't budge for anyone or anything. We'll get through this and we are already on the way. Things are looking brighter, most definately.....but Austin will never ever be forgotten. At least he has Lisa.

Thank you so much for the well wishes and prayers. It means a lot.

 

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone again. My cousin had the babies naturally on Saturday night about 9:30 or so. The little girl came first, was completely healthy, and is doing awesome still. She is eating more than they expect her to at this point. The little boy was still born like we had been told. His imbilical cord was rapped around his neck three times very tightly. He didn't look as bad as we thought he would, but you could tell he was gone. If he would have lived, the doctor said he probably would have been mentally retarded to some extent. While the little girl was in the NICU getting all fixed up, we got to hold Austin and say all of our goodbyes. My cousin is coming home from the hospital today, and the baby gets to come home by Friday at the latest. Things are going as well as can be expected. Thank you so much for all the prayers. The power of prayer works!!