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Don't use this thing often, but it calls for it.
at 3:20am on the 30th of July Sarah gave birth to our little baby girl. Zoe Eliza Bourke. Sarahs going great she didn't get and cuts, rips , grazes or anything like that and recovered very rapidly.
It has taken me so long to post because Zoe had some lung problems at birth, and we honestly didn't know if she'd make it through them. Pretty much during birth she became distressed and poo'd in her little waterbag thing. Later on she swallowed this and it becomes a liquid called meconium (possibly the wrong spelling). Which prevents a reaction in her lungs when she first breathes which would make her lungs stay inflated. Instead for her each breath was like her first breath which decreased the oxygen saturation level in her blood.
So the poor little girls had it pretty rough the last two days, she spent the first 52 hours of her life in a special little crib with a plastic container around her head which had a tube going into it pumping into it between 90 and 100% oxygen (we breathe 21% oxygen in our air). She had to have a tube in her stomach (through her mouth) which was sucking out this cruddy liquid and a drip in her arm.
Yesterday she made some amazing progress though, both lungs are now fully inflated and she is breathing through both of them really well. When I left at 8pm last night she was down to 23% oxygen and maintain between a 98 and 100% oxygen blood sat level. For 45minutes last night they actually got her out and Sarah and myself got to give her hugs for the first time. Sarah called me at 130am to say they'd got her out again for alittle which is excellent. The doctor had said she'd need to stay in there all night just to be sure everythings coming along well and she is handling the new levels of oxygen well.
Assuming she got through the night with no complications and is maintaining the strength she has the last few days she should be coming out of her capsule just before lunch today or sometime tonight (and staying out, hopefully).
At this stage we haven't taken any pictures cause the poor girl has had tubes and cords all over her. But one of the older midwives that was looking after her has made us this amazing little book. It has pictures of her and the crib thingy she has been in. Little poems, ink prints of her feet, and a story of what happened to her on day one and all the progress that she has made.
When she is out i'll take some pictures of her and the little crib thing shes been in and post them up for everyone to see.
at 3:20am on the 30th of July Sarah gave birth to our little baby girl. Zoe Eliza Bourke. Sarahs going great she didn't get and cuts, rips , grazes or anything like that and recovered very rapidly.
It has taken me so long to post because Zoe had some lung problems at birth, and we honestly didn't know if she'd make it through them. Pretty much during birth she became distressed and poo'd in her little waterbag thing. Later on she swallowed this and it becomes a liquid called meconium (possibly the wrong spelling). Which prevents a reaction in her lungs when she first breathes which would make her lungs stay inflated. Instead for her each breath was like her first breath which decreased the oxygen saturation level in her blood.
So the poor little girls had it pretty rough the last two days, she spent the first 52 hours of her life in a special little crib with a plastic container around her head which had a tube going into it pumping into it between 90 and 100% oxygen (we breathe 21% oxygen in our air). She had to have a tube in her stomach (through her mouth) which was sucking out this cruddy liquid and a drip in her arm.
Yesterday she made some amazing progress though, both lungs are now fully inflated and she is breathing through both of them really well. When I left at 8pm last night she was down to 23% oxygen and maintain between a 98 and 100% oxygen blood sat level. For 45minutes last night they actually got her out and Sarah and myself got to give her hugs for the first time. Sarah called me at 130am to say they'd got her out again for alittle which is excellent. The doctor had said she'd need to stay in there all night just to be sure everythings coming along well and she is handling the new levels of oxygen well.
Assuming she got through the night with no complications and is maintaining the strength she has the last few days she should be coming out of her capsule just before lunch today or sometime tonight (and staying out, hopefully).
At this stage we haven't taken any pictures cause the poor girl has had tubes and cords all over her. But one of the older midwives that was looking after her has made us this amazing little book. It has pictures of her and the crib thingy she has been in. Little poems, ink prints of her feet, and a story of what happened to her on day one and all the progress that she has made.
When she is out i'll take some pictures of her and the little crib thing shes been in and post them up for everyone to see.