Posted by Jodie | Posted in Birth Stories, Worldwide News | Posted on 26-01-2010
Hi everyone. I just wanted to say DON’T WORRY!
I had my son in Oxford, John Radcliffe hospital on the 13/10/09.
Everything was fine with the delivery. I was told he had gastroschisis at 17 weeks old.
As a 18 year old young women this was very worrying but I give the advice I took form another lady who had gone through this, don’t worry about it… enjoy being pregnant and be proud of the life you’ve created.
Cradle your new bump and just be happy! Don’t ruin it because you will regret it once it’s over!
I live in south wales, newport so you can imagine how worrying it was to be transferred to oxford in labour but I was very glad as they accomidated me for the 4 weeks he stayed there and looked after him and his surgery very well!
I was 36 weeks gone and went into natural labour. I had steroids before hand so he was fine when he came out. He had dilated loops of bowl so I personally thought it was a good thing.
ANYONE who tells you it’s BEST to have a cessarian are WRONG, if you’ve been told you are having a natural birth it will be fine. Everything was fine with me and all the other women I have spoken to who have been throuigh the same thing. Listen to yourself mainly!
He had a large defect which his bowls were placed in a silo and hung above him and gradually pushed into him. This took 5 days after he was born. He stayed in an incubatorfor that time. He was on TPN, fluids containing fats and protein and alot of morphine and paracetamol.
After the surgery, he was in the high dependency unit on the ventilator for 3 days amongst which his stitches burst open and puss exploded from underneath them exposing muscle which, thankfully was still intact. This was nothing major it just meant it would take a lot longer to heal. He was on even more morphine.
Once he no longer needed the ventilator hes pent the night in intensive care. The day after he went to the childrens ward. He spent a further 3 weeks here in which we spent getting him to eat and to poop. We also had our first hold here.
He had to have a hickman line put in as all his veins had been used up and collapsed. He was on morphine for 3 weeks and got addicted to it. It took him another 5 days to be weaned off it. He suffered from terrible shakes.
Rileigh had jaundice which they were, wrongly, not worried about, from birth.
He was then transferred to Intensive care, Cardiff hospital for 3 days where he had his hickman line taken out and then to the Gwent special care unit for a further week.
We got to finally bring him home but on the day he came home he couldn’t hold milk down and was being sick bial and milk. He had x-rays on his belly to see if that was the problem but nothing showed. We took him to the Gwent three times before a doctor, Dr.Braxton, realised what it was. He had prolonged jaundice and bial sickness from a liver disfunction.
We were then transferred to Birmingham, diana’s children hospial, where they queried a few different problems and gave him an ultrasound.
