23 week preemie survives to be taken home
Filed under: Premature babies — Alan @ 9:44 am
An East Sussex family is now celebrating taking their ‘miracle’ baby home with them after it was born prematurely at only 23.5 weeks. Mark James and Jodi Andrews feared that they would never get to take Anabella out of the hospital after her birth was extremely premature at the Eastbourne District General Hospital.
However, after being treated for four months at three different hospitals at Surrey and Sussex she was finally able to go home last week. James stated that they are beyond belief about how lucky they were.
Andrews went into birth prematurely and was rushed to the general hospital where she gave birth.
James stated that when the baby was born it was still encased in the amniotic sac, which in olden times was supposed to be lucky. He stated that at this point Anabella is a miracle baby since it protected her from bruising.
He continued to say that the couple was told that normally a child under 24 weeks would not be resuscitated but that given the opportunity they chose to give her a chance.
After her birth, Anabella was transferred to the St. Peter’s Hospital special care baby unit and then onto the Brighton Royal Sussex County Hospital.
James stated that there were many problems along the way and that it was an emotional fight but that the NHS offered them an extremely high amount of support, which made the entire ordeal easier for the couple to handle.
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