Follow-Ups to Answer from Expert Brigid Kowalczyk

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Samaara wrote at 2008-07-03 00:21:45
Yes, having faith and trusting that you can love a child of yours is good but here is a little more fact as well.

I was on Depo for a year, 1 month after I stopped using it I got pregnant. My little girl (borth this May) is SO precious and SO beautiful! She has brought so much joy and love and happiness and peace to my life. More than I ever thought possible. She has changed my life in so many ways and changed the lives of those around me. Everyone who holds her, has tears of happiness because her spirit is so strong and she is such a special child. I truly believe she was sent to me as a gift from God to change the lives of those around me.

Depo did cause some problems for her though. She has something called Amniotic Band Syndrome which was caused by depo. She is missing all of her fingers except her thumbs, has a form of clubfoot caused by the bands, has webfoot on both feet, is going blind in one eye, is deaf in one ear, and (perhaps the most worrysome of it all) is going to have brain surgery at 3 months of age due to one of the bands wrapping around a small part of her head and caused excessive brain groth and brain damage.

I know she is going to spend the rest of her life with these problems but I also know that if I raise her well and teach her to be confident and loving and trust in God then she will change lives and people will give to her an unconditional love forever. I would NOT give her back for ANYTHING. She is the light of not only my life but of ALL those who even see her. She is a blessing and I'm so glad for every little thing that she is and will become.

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YEP wrote at 2009-01-07 19:14:20
We were the .01% that the shot didn't work on 11 years ago. Now our 11 year old Daughter has problems with her joints.....

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