Odd things

Births can bring many interesting situations.
I had a 48 yr old mom Gravid 18 Para 12. Had had all her other babies @ the hosp, never a problem, no complaints. A good friend of hers suggested she come and see me and that she might like a birth center birth. She became my client.
She was great to get along with and had a huge span of childrens ages.
She goes into labor on time, birth was pretty normal.
Out comes this little( 5lbs) baby girl who had to be stimulated, but came around quickly. I kept looking at this child and thinking she looked "different", but the newborn exam was normal. Her color looked odd. She looked like this old, old book paper, that old weak yellow, tan color. But parents thought she was perfect. She nursed fine. I sent them home cause I couldn't think of a reason to send the baby to a doc. Mom brought her in for her baby checkups and I noticed baby had that same color and she didn't have much weight gain. I was seeing this baby every wk, Mom insitsted baby was fine. I did ask mom to take baby to her pediatrician. Came back next wk and said he told her everything was fine, but mom did notice baby also wasn't gaining much. Finally I told mom, "somethings really wrong ,please take her back to the doc". Again all they did was suggest mom supplement with some formula.
I was ok with that becasue this baby did not look ok. I saw the mom again and baby still wasn't gaining any weight. I called her several days later ( by now mom was getting worried.) and talked to her about this. About a week later mom left a message at the clinic that they were at a Denver hosp. I called back and mom told me they still weren't sure what was wrong. Several days later she called and said they discovered the baby had " giant idopathic red blood cells- the baby had a liver disorder. ! How bizarre ! I had sent her records to the Neonatologist and spoke to her at length about moms care and baby's care. Mom had had a water birth and the doc said she always wondered about those births, I explained why and how and she says" that makes sense"
Anyway, she commended  that she was pleased that I pushed the mom to persue investingating babys health issue. She found no contrubuting factors of mom under my care- in fact she said even the hospital was having a hard time figuring out that there was even a problem other that the odd color and no weight gain. She also later told me that there was nothing that could have been tested for or done differently  even if it was a hosp birth, and that because there was no real stress on this baby in labor and at the birth, her liver didn't get even more stressed out.  She suggested that perhaps it was the best thing that little girl was born out of the hospital. Mom had  never had any type of liver problems or disorders or any illnesses in pregnancy, the docs didn't even know how this could have happened.
I'd say that's odd.

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