A tiny baby born weighing just 3lbs is finally living at home with his parents after spending months in intensive care. Rebecca Ingram gave birth more than two months prematurely after admitting herself to Wythenshawe Hospital in September last year.
Rebecca, from Chorlton, became concerned after she couldn’t feel her baby moving as usual. The 32-year-old was hooked up to a monitor which showed its heartrate fluctuating at an alarming rate.
A midwife pushed the emergency alarm and Rebecca, who works as a solicitor, was admitted to the ward overnight. After monitoring her closely, it was decided Rebecca would give birth via an emergency C-section.
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Her baby – who she named Isaac – was delivered successfully but had an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The tiny tot was rushed to the intensive care unit and placed on a machine to help with his breathing.
The following day he was taken to the neonatal ward where he stayed for nine weeks in an incubator. Isaac was finally allowed to return home with mum Rebecca and dad Nick Lowe, 37, just before his original due date.
The tot, now seven-months-old, needed a blood transfusion due to breathing difficulties but has since been growing well. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Rebecca said: “Everything turned around after the blood transfusion. We’ll never be able to thank the staff at Wythenshawe Hospital for what they did to Isaac.
“As much as it’s been a tough few months, we’ve been incredibly lucky with the care Isaac received. It was all a bit of a blur – it just seemed to be happening to someone else. It’s very difficult to process at the time.
“I don’t have distinct memories of it happening; it happened very quickly. The memories I do have are off the staff – the doctors and nurses that delivered him. They were incredible and very calm and reassuring.
“It’s really scary and worrying and you hear about babies being born prematurely but you don’t have a concept of what it means and what is going to happen.”
Rebecca and Nick are now raising money for Wythenshawe Hospital newborn intensive care unit and the Spoons neonatal charity, which helped them settle at home and provided counselling to help them process the NICU experience.
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