My daughter was born 12 weeks premature (no known reason as to why I went into early labor), she spent 61 days in the NICU and the ultrasounds of her brain showed no brain bleeds or any thing that brought concerns to the medical persons. At 6 months after being followed closely by the Neonatal follow up team, she was regressing in her developmental progress (she was not pushing up on her arms like she did 2 weeks prior). She was sent to a neuro-surgeon who did an MRI & Cat Scan and noted she had mild hydrocephalus, she was monitored for the next year and with the hydrocephalus showing a mild increase, it was determined to place a VP shunt 2 months before her 2nd birthday, 2 weeks later I was driving to her doctors appts...

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