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Premature Babies....
What do you think of the News, that very premature babies take up valuable caring time & space within hospitals?: Here
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going on from a personal experience, My cousin had an emergency cesarean at 20 weeks and gave birth to a tiny little thing, she resembled a "sparrow" her legs where the size of my pinkies, her head was the size of a 50p piece. the baby ( Honour) nearly died 2 or 3 times in her first 24 hours and she fought really hard for her life, she is now the most beautiful 3 year old a complete miracle. i couldnt imagine life without her!
I work in the NHS (not as a doctor) and I know how consultants operate. I can assure you there will not be a politician behind this and if there was the consultants would be the first to make a noise. To say that politicians are involved is to trivialise an important debate and divert attention from the real issues. That is why I think you are silly - not because you don't agree with me - I couldn't care less, but because this kind of unsubstantiated comment detracts from the real issue.
Hi zebra - thanks for your answer.
This is a different issue to abortion & the unborn child, something I also feel strongly about. This thread was about saving the lives of premature babies, born unexpectedly & who need help & medical assistanceto survive.
If you wish to start up a new thread on Abortion Law, then I would imagine you would receive a lot of response.
sorry i'm posting this late:
The thing that surprised me was the comment in the article about prems taking beds away from healthy mothers and babies.....I'm sorry, I thought healthy mother's and baby's went home????
maybe if there were more support and proactive midwives encouraging and supporting more healthy, straight forward mother's and babies to have home births, then hospitals wouldn't be full up with mother's and babies. Home birth is an area that is so underfunded and unsupported, and yet it would do so much for the care of very sick babies and mothers.
I was in hospital with my last baby (all the other's were home births) as she was a prem. When I was transfered back from ICU and was on the post natal ward, it was all very uncomfortable, not for me but for the other mums. I was on the ward, clearly postnatal, and yet had no baby with me. There was no private room available that day for me to stay in and so the other mums were there with their babies and wondering where mine was and whether it had survived....I even came into the room one time in a chair and heard two of the other mums supposing where my baby was....awful. I was moved to a private room the following day.
The point is, hospital is for sick people, if healthy happy mums can be visited and cared for at home, not only will it free up hospitals, but will also make for more rested, more relaxed mums and foster quicker breastfeeding success.
rant over.
The thing that surprised me was the comment in the article about prems taking beds away from healthy mothers and babies.....I'm sorry, I thought healthy mother's and baby's went home????
maybe if there were more support and proactive midwives encouraging and supporting more healthy, straight forward mother's and babies to have home births, then hospitals wouldn't be full up with mother's and babies. Home birth is an area that is so underfunded and unsupported, and yet it would do so much for the care of very sick babies and mothers.
I was in hospital with my last baby (all the other's were home births) as she was a prem. When I was transfered back from ICU and was on the post natal ward, it was all very uncomfortable, not for me but for the other mums. I was on the ward, clearly postnatal, and yet had no baby with me. There was no private room available that day for me to stay in and so the other mums were there with their babies and wondering where mine was and whether it had survived....I even came into the room one time in a chair and heard two of the other mums supposing where my baby was....awful. I was moved to a private room the following day.
The point is, hospital is for sick people, if healthy happy mums can be visited and cared for at home, not only will it free up hospitals, but will also make for more rested, more relaxed mums and foster quicker breastfeeding success.
rant over.
