STORYTIME: "CDH AWARENESS"

LITTLE MISS MIRACULOUS – Meet Emily Rose, the miracle baby that was prayed for 🙏     Before this little princess fought to make her mark in the world, Lauren had endured a heart-wrenching miscarriage which took two long years of fertility treatment to conceive. However, five months later, she was pregnant again but this time with double the blessing in identical twins!

Sadly, they ended up losing one of the twins at 15 weeks.  Concerns then arose over Emily’s well-being, due to having shared a placenta with her identical twin. When one twin dies, all the blood flow is diverted to that twin in an effort to save it, therefore, depriving the other baby.

As well as this concern, at 24 weeks along, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), was found on an ultrasound. CDH is a birth defect of the diaphragm and is both life-threatening and a major cause of death in infants. Survival chances are low and after birth, the baby will usually be immediately placed on a ventilator.

However, on the morning of the 3rd of January, 2018 in a labour that went from **3cm to being born in 21 minutes** 😱       

from start to finish, with no time for pain relief, little Emily Rose Service entered the world! She had no complications post-birth and no surgery was required as the hernia had shown to have closed all on its own! 💪😍

“Post birth, the x-ray showed that although there was some evidence of weakness remaining in her diaphragm, the hernia appeared to have healed itself! It really is a miracle to us that this could happen, but here she is” – Lauren (Emily’s mama).

Emily is a little miracle baby and today she is 3 months young, happy and healthy and busy being doted on by her big brother Asher + furbabies 

For more information on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, please see the following links:

http://cdh.org.au/what-is-cdh/

I had the pleasure of meeting the amazing Adam's family! Such beautiful children in this family, I had photography-fever! Introducing the newest member to their growing family - Mr. Grayson.

First off - How gorgeous is her name!!

Miss Emmersyn Mae was a photographers dream baby.
Alert and eyeballing you when awake and didn't care being poked and prodded when asleep. 

The best thing about being booked as your family photographer, is being booked for all those important milestones in your life! The Symeoy family is such a family that values captured memories so much, they had booked in for preserving memories of the baby bump to the hospital to a newborn + family session when bub arrived. I can't stress enough the importance of savoring these moments when they are young as you will very much want to remember what they looked like years from now and especially when they eventually leave the nest. 

Its been a privilege getting to know you thus far creating memories for your gorgeous little family Katelyn + Anthony, congrats on miss Emmersyn Mae. I know I'll see you in future. xoxo

fresh hospital session (first 48 hours)