Polyhydramnios

When Rome became pregnant, she was the first female in human history to gestate the spawn of a Vuduri mother and an Essessoni father. The child, Aason, was fully connected from the moment of conception. He knew he was supposed to connect to his mother but was not able to. The harder he "pushed" to become connected, the more frustrated and frightened he became.

The physical manifestation of this was an excess of amniotic fluid called Polyhydramnios. It put Rome in increasing stress as her uterus pressed against her diaphragm and made it harder and harder for her to breathe.

A normal woman carries 800-1000 mL of amniotic fluid. Rome was carrying close to 2000 mL with the levels increasing at an alarmingly fast rate.

The Vuduri doctors correctly identified this was her principal problem. To reduce Rome's stress, they decided to treat the symptom first which was to reduce the amount of amniotic fluid using amniocentesis.

After Rome had recovered, they decided to address the underlying cause and injected Rome to allow her to reconnect to her son. After this, all was well.