Just a quick one to let you know that Noah was born by emergency c- section on Sunday due to antepartum haemorrhage. Luckily Kim was already in hospital because she woke up the Tuesday prior with a small bleed so she was admitted. Then they discovered that Noah was small for dates due to placental insuffienciency. He was only measuring 24 weeks when we were 27 weeks!!! Kim was admitted and put on strict bed rest with a plan to have a doppler scan every 2 days to measure the blood flow through the cord and a growth scan every 2 weeks. Luckily our Dr decided to give her two doses of steriods just in case. We made it to 5 days and she started to bleed profusely so it was off to theatre in a hurry.
Everyone is well, Noah is in NICU but he is a TROOPER!!! Born on 13/09/09 at 27+4 weeks, 750gms (or 1pound 10 ounces!!!!!!!!) with apgars of 6 and 9. They intubated him for the first 11 hours of life only to get him settled in NICU and get his umbilical lines in etc, but they didn't need to because he kept wanting to pull out the tube because he was breathing on his own! He was so feisty that they took him off the respirator and put him on Cpap instead. They have never had a baby this young on Cpap alone, so they dont have nasal prongs small enough for him, so they are stretching his little nostrils! He hasn't needed any oxygen since birth and he is on day 5 today! He is currently on 2 hours off cpap twice a day and his oxygen saturation is between 95 and 100% all the time!
We are so pround of our LITTLE bundle! Will update when I can, as you can imagine life is hectic at the moment! I'm keeping the ticker up so we can see when he is considered term, the closer we get to term the sooner he can come home!
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