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Bodhi!

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Bodhi was born on Monday - isn't he adorable? @heidi #51217

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But there's something wrong with his lungs. Jill got out of the hospital today, but he was transferred to a larger regional medical center with a NICU a few hours after the c-section. At first they said he had pneumonia, then that he had fluid in his lungs from the c-section, and now they said something about emphysema. *worry worry*
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  1. libertad ·

    Emphysema?! That's crazy, I didn't even know that babies could get it.

  2. tinypliny ·

    Awww! He is so cute!!

    :( Too bad about the pneumonia. Good luck to Bodhi! I hope he gets well soon!

    @libertad, emphysema is a blanket term used when the smaller airways in the lung collapse everytime you exhale. This is because the tissue around the smaller airways are damaged - either by chronic inflammation (eg. smoking) or an acute inflammation (eg. inhalation of the amniotic fluid) or even congenitally weak cartilage tissue around the airways.

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