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    I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive: My Dear Son
    I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive: My Dear Son
    I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive: My Dear Son
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    I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive: My Dear Son

    By Jodi Lenaghen Daly

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    Just weeks after Jodi Lenaghen Daly miscarried the first of her twins, she began feeling pain in her abdomen. Five months pregnant and terrified, Jodi was rushed to the hospital where she was told that if she gave birth, it was likely her son would not survive. After nine days of labor and agonizing worry, Jodi gave birth to a tiny baby. Little Michael James weighed just one pound, twelve ounces.

    In a candid retelling of her life before, during, and after his birth, Jodi details how she became determined to help her son overcome every obstacle before him, despite the demands that accompanied her life as a single mother. As she reveals how she focused on raising Michael while researching how to help him persevere through his difficulties and mature into a responsible and healthy adult, Jodi provides inspiration and hope to other mothers feeling overwhelmed with the challenges of caring for a child with special abilities.

    I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive shares the true story of a single mother’s journey through love, perseverance, and hope after her son was born fifteen weeks premature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLifeRich Publishing
    Release dateApr 11, 2019
    ISBN9781489722171
    I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive: My Dear Son
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    Jodi Lenaghen Daly

    Jodi Lenaghen Daly is a single mother whose son, Michael, was born over three months premature. She currently resides in Minoa, New York. This is her first book.

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      I Was Told That He Wouldn’t Survive - Jodi Lenaghen Daly

      Copyright © 2019 Jodi Lenaghen Daly.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by

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      recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system

      without the written permission of the author except in the case of

      brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author

      and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of

      the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of

      people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4897-2216-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4897-2215-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4897-2217-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2019903263

      LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 06/26/2021

      CONTENTS

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      This book is

      dedicated to my dear son.

      A special Thank You to the high school

      students that have assisted me with Web

      Design and Graphic Design.

      CHAPTER ONE

      As I lay there in the morning light, a slight cramp in my lower abdomen awoke me. After a few seconds it disappeared, only to return again at any moment. This took place several times, so the second that my doctor’s office opened, at seven o’clock, I called and was told to meet the doctor at the hospital.

      I was so scared, so nervous! It was only a little over a month and a half since I had lost the first of the twins. They were in different sacks. This one had to be alright! I couldn’t lose this one also! I’m thirty three years old, I’ve wanted this baby for so many years. Oh please don’t let anything happen to this baby! I kept saying to myself.

      While the doctor examined me, he said, You are in labor. This baby is coming. You can deliver it here and we will send the baby to Albany. You will need to go separately, or, we can send you right now to Syracuse and you will deliver the baby there.

      I want to go to Syracuse so I can stay with my baby, I replied. My heart was pounding! My mind was racing!

      I asked one of the nurses to please call my sister Lori and tell her. I was there by myself. I kept praying for the strength and the wisdom to do what I needed to do.

      So many things were rushing through my mind. I was only five months along. Would my baby live or die? What kind of problems would this create for my baby? How would I take care of things? How would I prepare for this baby? How would I work to pay the rent and care for my baby’s needs at the same time? Why wasn’t the cerclage that was sewn into my cervix holding my baby inside of my uterus?

      It had only been a little over a month and a half since I miscarried the first baby of the twins. Even though I was told everything looked alright for this baby, I still needed to be very careful, which I had been trying to do.

      The ambulance ride to Syracuse is a blur. Once at the hospital in Syracuse, the doctors immediately attached leads to my abdomen so they could keep track of the baby. I was so scared that I would lose this baby also! The contractions did not stop coming. I continued by myself. I continued to pray for strength and wisdom.

      I was told, You are way too early for us to be able to save the baby, if born now. We can try to hold off delivery to keep the baby inside of you for as long as possible. There are no guarantees. Be prepared because, it’s very likely that the baby will not make it!

      I told the doctor, I don’t care what I have to go through! Please, do what you need to do! I can’t lose this baby!

      The days all ran together. I could eat and drink very little. Too many times to count, the nurses came running in to help me because, once again, I was having a full contraction.

      I had spent so much time in tears! I don’t know how to fix this! I don’t know how to stop this! Now I could lose this baby also! No! I can’t lose this one! I’ve waited too long to have a child!, I kept repeating to myself. I laid there completely alone, except for the doctors and nurses.

      I continually went over in my mind how careful I had been. Before I became pregnant, I only ate health food. As soon as I found out that I was pregnant, I became even more careful about the food that I ate. I needed to stay very healthy in order to have a healthy baby. None of that even matters now. I still could lose this baby!

      After nine days of having contractions, laying flat in the hospital bed, the doctors came in and said, You are dilated over five centimeters. The cerclage is ripping your cervix, we need to go in and take it out now! Your baby will be born soon!

      The doctors went in and removed the cerclage and wheeled me down to another room. My contractions intensified and came closer together. The hospital called my sister Lori and told her it was time. She called the hospital on another line and I

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