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Day 3 in Kirsty's life and I just fell to pieces. There was so much
going through my mind there was Lisa Amy our daughter the house, work
and yes there was me what about me? I wanted to get close to that little
bundle who reminded me of a baby bird who had fell out of a nest. Yes a
lot of people say that.
Premature babies do not have the muscle and fat of term babies. You feel like you want to get close but you are afraid of getting close just in case something happened to her. Bonding? how do you bond to a premature baby? You cant cuddle her as you would a term baby, you cant get as close as you want.
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Tubes and wires. The plastic pipe in Kirsty's mouth is helping her to breath without this she would not stand much chance of surviving. The ventilator forces her lungs to breathe. Whilst Lisa was in hospital she had steroid injections to help Kirsty's lungs to develop. Kirsty was lucky in this respect as it helped to develop her lungs ready for the outside world. Some babies are not so lucky but still do well. The tubes into her belly button are a way of getting medication and "food" into Kirsty. I use the word food very loosely as it is a liquid that goes into the blood stream. These had to kept moist to stop them drying out as the bit of the cord would soon dry out.
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just how small she is compared to my hand which as it is, is not very
big.
One of the important things we learned was that Kirsty's blood oxygen levels had to kept up. Because she was so small and her liver was so under developed, there was a problem of the body keeping enough cells to carry the oxygen around her frail body. Kirsty has a long way to go before she is out of any major danger. But she came out fighting. |
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