Ariel Hayes

Hi my name is Ariel Hayes and I’m starting this gofundme for myself due to my pregnancy. As many of you know I had my son Sebastian at 26 weeks in 2022. We spent 97 days in the nicu with him and watched him fight for his life. He was born weighing only 2 pounds 4 ounces. Its hard to really wrap your mind around how small that really is unless you see and hold that baby yourself. Its also hard to understand the toll the nicu has on you while you are there and after you go home. Sadly we are close to the same situation with our daughter. I am 28 weeks pregnant and starting to have contractions. My doctors don’t think it will be much longer until she enters the world where she will be taken away from me like my son was and rushed to the nicu. I am asking for help because my doctors want me on bed rest to try to keep her in as long as humanly possible. 1 extra day in my belly is a week long in the outside world. I don’t qualify for social security and I don’t qualify for social security disability Through my job because this is considered a pre existing condition. I have tried everything possible and exhausted every avenue to stay on bed rest and give my daughter a fighting chance. My fiance also sadly lost his job, which was quite literally out of the blue. I am paying for everything on my own right now with some help from amazing family and friends that I have. We wouldn't have made it this far without the help of a few people. The crazy part about it all though is I should not be working but I have absolutely no choice, I refuse to lose what we worked so hard for especially for our son. This is his home and I cant lose it. The nicu is the scariest place I have ever been and I’m praying to god I don’t have to be in there with my daughter. If I have to continue to work she will be coming soon and she is not ready yet it’s too soon. I’m extremely scared as my son has many disabilities due to being born at 26 weeks and I fear the same for my little girl. I’ve taken it easy I’ve eaten healthy food I’ve done everything they recommenced to me the only thing they told me I shouldn’t be doing is working but I’ve had no choice and I feel the pains in my stomach getting worse the more I work. My doctor has sent over medication to try and stop my contractions and has urged me to stay in bed but I can’t afford to take off from work. All donations will quite literally keep me in bed and save my daughters life. This is the 2nd time I’ve had to make a gofund me the 1st time was because of a surgery I got to keep her in my belly and although the stitches are still in place that hasn’t stopped my cervix from shortening and it’s starting to funnel which means it’s getting ready to give birth. Hopefully with the medication that my specialist is sending over now and me being able to be on bed rest I can keep this baby girl in my belly as long as humanly possible. I am petrified to have another baby in the nicu. If anyone could please help me keep my daughter in my belly i would forever be in debt to you. Even if you can’t donate and just share this post I would appreciate it so much. I am so scared for my daughters life and being able to keep a roof over my sons head while I am bed rest. It’s taken me a while to even post this because I hate the fact that everyone will know my situation but I will do anything in the world to protect my daughter and not have her go through what my son and family went through for 97 days not long ago. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.