Emma Lehman

It all started on March 1, 2108 I found out I was pregnant with twins. They could tell at this point they looked like Monochorionic Monoamniotic (Mono-Mono) which is very high risk. Mono-Mono twins are where there is one placenta (food source) and one amniotic sac (where the babies are) her babies could physically touch each other in the womb. The survival rate for these kinds of twins is only 50%. They referred me to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX who could possibly perform fetal surgery to split the placenta in half so the twins each have their own source of food. There, the doctor said that baby B (Brooklyn) looks really small and hardly has any flow in her umbilical cord. He also said they didn’t see any fluid in her kidneys and baby A (Emma) had an enlarged heart with a hole in her heart. With a tough choice, I decided to continue with the pregnancy of both. On August 5, 2018 during my 4am monitoring is when the girls started declining. I had to have an emergency c-section at 26 weeks 5 days due to umbilical cord entanglement.  Both my girls were micro-preemies.  Emma was born first weighing 1 lb 13 oz and Brooklyn weighing 1 lb 9 oz, both were about 12 inches long. Emma is now a happy, funny, beautiful 3 year old.  Emma spent 76 days in the NICU and while there she battled many obstacles.  She had a grade 1 brain bleed, two holes and an extra vein in her heart, a hemangioma on her cheek (little kiss mark to say  bye from her sister) Emma was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at 1 year old and while she can’t walk, crawl, sit up, talk, or feed herself she can let you know what she wants when she wants it and can say a few words one  of her favorite ones being “no”.  We have many therapies and see many Drs. She does gymnastics at our home gym and absolutely loves it!! We love UGA Miracle because even though she may not be able to do many things she always has the best time with everyone and everyone always makes Emma feel loved!!