Gastroschisis

 Gastroschisis is a birth defect of the abdominal wall, which causes for babies intenstines to be outside of the baby's body when born. When I was 13 weeks pregnant I found out that my son, Lorenzo, was going to be born with this defect.  There was nothing we could do about it except wait until he was born. Every week I had to go to a specialist to look over how Lorenzo was doing and whether or not he was getting worst. 

Once he born, he had to be flown to the Riley's Children Hospital in Indianapolis. The doctors would slowly put his intestines back into his stomach everyday until they were completely back inside him. The whole process took about a week for Lorenzo and afterwards had to get surgery to close his stomach up. He had to slowly start eating after the surgery, because he was not allowed to until after everything was back inside his stomach. After a month of being in the hospital, Lorenzo was finally able to come home with me.