A new mum has described the terror of ending up in intensive care just days after her son was born 10 weeks premature. Jordan Williams, 24, gave birth to her first child Arthur on April 10 this year – more than two months before his June 15 due date. Just days later Jordan, who lives in Newport but is originally from Swansea, was admitted to hospital with sepsis and at one stage was in intensive care in the same hospital as her new baby boy.
Speaking to WalesOnline Jordan said she and her partner Paul Jennings, 54, were hugely fearful when she went into the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran earlier this year, given their son was not expected for several months. "It was quite traumatic," she said. "I went into hospital at 29 weeks with bleeding and they wanted to stop the labour and keep me in until I was 34 weeks. I was contracting but not dilating."
Jordan said she stayed in hospital and reached 30 weeks before doctors decide to have Arthur born by C-section. "It was a decision that was made because I was contracting but not dilating," she said. "They couldn't just leave me for another four weeks. Obviously with that there was a high risk that Arthur wasn't going to make it because he was two and a half months early."
