She wasn't breathing. They said that they normally stop trying to actively resuscitate babies after about five minutes so I suppose you could say it's a lucky set of circumstances that my, my daughter's here, that they kept working on her. They had also been aware of a case three weeks before my daughter was born, and thought that this was possibly another case. The staff had had training again, and were up to, to date with it, and this obviously triggered an alarm, and they kept going with my daughter. So six minutes, yeah, that's why they, they thought that she would be brain damaged.
How did you feel when, when they told you that that was a possibility?
It's, it's very shocking to think that this was a perfectly healthy baby, and a perfectly normal pregnancy, and that there's going to be something - there could be something wrong with your baby, and that there's a possibility of something like cerebral palsy developing and everything. My husband and I both knew that whatever happened we would still love her, because she was the most wanted baby, so we would still love her whatever happened, but it still, that still doesn't make it any less devastating news, to think that there could be problems ahead for her, and more battles for her, so it's, it's very hard. |
