PREM BABYSCreated By KIERANSMUM07 on 04 June 2008

Hello, My daughter carlotta was born at 30 +1 and weighed only 1lb 7, apparently she was the size of a 26 week old. She came out crying and was on cpap for one week, she finally came home just before her due date, she did well in hospital and was lucky that she didn't have any serious problems, she did have two blood transfusions and suffered a lot with bradys which we now know was due to bad reflux which she still suffers with. She is now 7 months old and weighs 12lb 9 and is a very smiley, happy baby. It was one of the hardest times of our lives, not knowing what would be, but we are now so lucky to have our baby home. My heart goes out to all of you.

hi
my son was born at 29weeks on 19/11/08. he weighed 3lb 3oz he was on a breathing machine for 3days at 2months olde he had to have a blood transfusion he came home on the 5/02/09 he weighs 11lb 2oz now.

i had my little girl at 35 weeks threw a c sectio n emergency she had her cord arounf her shoulder and legs she was 5lb so at went to specail care for 2 weeks had help to feed and keep warm but she got better and is now over 7lb she is 5 weeks and great if it was nt for staff at specail care york uk i would of fallen apart i lost twins at 26 weeks 8 yrs ago but they were too small weighing 1 pound each they cried at bearth but died staight away i have had too other boys one at 33 weeks who was in specail for 3 weeks and one at 40 weeks both ok now so all stay strong ad ure babys will be home soon x x x

sorry dont really understand how this works yet just realised ive written all that twice whoppsy!!!!!

Hi everyone id just like to let you all know what me and my twins have been through so that anyone going through the same knows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I didn't have an easy pregnancy for lots of reasons but mainly i developed mastitis which led to two absesses which i had an opeation to remove when i was 24 weeks. My twins were born at 28 weeks Amelia weighing 2lb14oz and James weighin 3lb6oz. James needed help breathing with sipap at first and was quite poorly but amelia seemed to be doing well. Amelia then got an infection in her bowels NEC and was on triple antibiotics for 10 days and she didnt have anyfood for nearly 2 weeks. the infection left a stricture in her bowels which was removed when she was just 8 weeks old. she is not 100% yet and we just have to wait and see whether she grows out of it or not she has laxatives twice a day so is finiding hard to put on weight and is 13lb at 7 months old. My son James in now 22lb and a right little bruiser he had alot of more minor infection and spent less time than amelia in hospital but still 64 days. However until they were 5 months old we never had 2 weeks were one of them wasn't in hospital. theyve not had to stay in hospital for nearly 2 months now and are starting to crawl and talk and love to put absolutely everything in their mounths. Everything we have been through has been 100% worth it and the best advice i can offer is that they have the best babysitters money can buy and i know thats not as good as their mums and dads but you have to allow yourself some time off to strengthen yourself for when they come home. your babies will need you to be stronger than ever when they come home so make some ttime to concentrate on yourself.
helen x x x