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A couple whose adorable baby will turn seven months old next week told how they joined a very exclusive club of “little wrestlers” when they were born twelve weeks at 28 weeks, weighing 2 pounds and 7 ounces. – the equivalent of a large bag of sugar.
Biomedical scientist Edward Rewse, 29, said his wife Louise, 30, a data steward, enjoyed a textbook pregnancy until the week before giving birth, when she developed a throbbing headache.
Fearing she suffered from preeclampsia, a form of pregnancy with higher blood pressure, she was scanned, but all was well, only for her to start bleeding a few days later, on April 30, resulting in the birth of a bath through Oscar via an emergency C-section. segment at nine o’clock in the evening that night.
Edward holding an Oscar when he returns home (Collect / PA Real Life).
Speaking today on World Prematurity Day, Edward, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said: “On Friday I was given the house of paintings a little earlier because, ironically, I wasn’t feeling very well.
“About 10 minutes later, Lou called me and told me that he had just bled and that everything came from there. “
Lit in blue at the hospital, another investigation revealed that Oscar was in misery and needed to be handed over immediately.
Edward said: “Its central frequency is not very strong and it is slow.
“So Lou was taken to an emergency C-section.
“He had to be resuscitated and needed specialist care, so he moved to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, where I work. “
He added: “Lou is still recovering from an operation, so I went with him and slept in the parents’ room. “
“This is our first child and it’s possible that nothing has been more general so far, so it was a big surprise for us. “
Detained in Addenbrookes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for seven weeks, where he gained oxygen, fed through a tube, and at one point received treatment for bleeding in the brain, fortunately Oscar made it and, after a few weeks of building force at his local hospital, returned home on August 3.
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Recalling how they lived on a razor’s edge during their time at Addenbrookes, but praising fair attention, Edward said: “One day after his birth, Oscar suffered a hemorrhage on the left side of his brain.
“This is the ultimate devastating news.
“I had spent the night in the circle of the relatives’ room, slightly sleeping, and I was told to stop by the house and rest. “
Louise feeds Oscar when she returns home in August of this year (Collect/PA Real Life).
He added: “But my mother, who had come to lend me a hand with him and take care of things, woke me up in tears and announced the news. “
Fortunately, the brilliant doctors stabilized him, the next seven weeks were an emotional roller coaster for Oscar’s family.
One of the six hundred families with a bathroom each year to be housed freely just minutes from her son’s bed through the charity Sick Children’s Trust, Louise temporarily transferred to Addenbrookes and when she felt well enough, she stayed with Edward there.
He said: “We stayed at Chestnut House, just two floors below the NICU, which is a blessing as it meant we were just minutes away from Oscar.
“For the first few weeks in particular, he was incredibly sick.
“Doctors have told us to prepare for the fact that it may not survive. “
He added: “But they gave it away and the nurses told us: ‘Twenty-eight weeks they are still real fighters. ‘”
Not knowing precisely what remedy he was given to stop his son’s brain hemorrhage, Edward says “whatever worked. “
He continued: “There is no surgery, but the left hemisphere of his brain necessarily bleeds heavily. “
He added: “When the bleeding is on the left side of the brain, you can with the pain; the frame can compensate for it.
But if either side were affected, Oscar himself would do so without a quality of life.
“Luckily for us, it didn’t get worse. “
Oscar born 12 weeks earlier in April 2021 (Collect/PA Real Life).
The couple soon learned that little Oscar had to give in.
Instead, he responded well to all his remedies and even began to check it out.
Edward said, “It’s pretty fiery from the start. “
He added: “I would take away his tubes when he had enough and even take out his own fan and breathe it well for a while.
“But there would be ups and downs, where anything could happen for a while and then go through again and want again.
“Fortunately, he is doing very well now. He just eats baby rice and drinks and eats well. “
He added: “He looks healthy and is a cheeky and satisfied baby. He even tries to laugh.
Doctors warned the couple that, despite Oscar’s remarkable progress and fighting spirit, he would have suffered inevitable brain damage.
Edward said: “We were told he would have more or less some kind of disability but, for the time being, even his muscle tone is the same on both sides. “
He added: “He still shows some apparent disorder due to his cerebral hemorrhage or prematurity.
“Although he is 12 weeks younger than his age, he is doing very well.
“We can’t be too excited, because it’s still imaginable that it’s going to change, because there may come a time when your brain is looking to make a connection and can’t do it because it’s damaged, however, we go to the paintings with that if and when it happens.
Edward holding an Oscar for the first time in (Collect/PA Real Life).
He added: “The fact that your experts say they would have expected to see something now may be wonderful news. “
While Oscar, who now weighs thirteen pounds and 2 ounces and is smaller than a six-month-old baby, has not followed the habit of breastfeeding, bottle-fed well and enjoyed skin-to-skin contact in the hospital, creating bonding. absolutely with his parents.
Edward said, “It’s hard to know how close we are to wasting it now. “
He added: “He only cries if he suffers, sleeps well and it’s a dream.
“It’s such a small guy. “
* To donate to Sick Children’s Trust’s Christmas Call, Home from Home, and keep families in combination at the hospital during the holidays, stop by www. sickchildrenstrust. org/christmas/