Comments on: Walking In Love http://walkingandhealth.com/walking-in-love/ Welcome to WalkingandHealth.com - resource center for optimum physical and spiritual health through walking and healthy living. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:21:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Angie - Author of this story http://walkingandhealth.com/walking-in-love/#comment-176 Angie - Author of this story Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:42:24 +0000 http://walkingandhealth.com/?p=25#comment-176 Rebecca, I appreciate your comments as a mother who underwent many weeks of NICU and a much more serious condition than my baby. In reference to several of your concerns, I told this story from the heart, and I was grateful than my baby came home to me in such a short time. He was not a preemie, he was born two weeks before his due date. However, his lungs were so full of liquid, that he was placed in an induced coma state so that he would not move and hurt himself while the tube was inside him keeping him alive with oxygen. At one point the head doctor of the NICU did approach me and he did state that there were several different times in the first few hours of his ilfe that they almost transported him to another NICU at Long Beach Memorial because his situation was so critical. Any moment that your child is not breathing on his own, is a critical moment to any mom. My baby did have needles in him no matter what type they were. The nurses showed me where they had taped up the bottom of one foot and had placed a needle in his other foot. I felt the lumps on the bottoms of his feet from all the times he was poked. It may have been to take his blood, but never-the-less, the discomfort that I felt as a mom was still there. He did have tubes coming from all directions and it is a scary sight. The main point of my inspirational story was to show the kindness that I received from the nurses who showed hope and courage in a situation that seemed uncertain. It is my own personal story and if I misconstrued any of the medical terminology I apologize. I was just grateful to have my son in the best care and I was even more overjoyed when I was able to take him home. May God bless you and your baby. Rebecca,
I appreciate your comments as a mother who underwent many weeks of NICU and a much more serious condition than my baby. In reference to several of your concerns, I told this story from the heart, and I was grateful than my baby came home to me in such a short time. He was not a preemie, he was born two weeks before his due date. However, his lungs were so full of liquid, that he was placed in an induced coma state so that he would not move and hurt himself while the tube was inside him keeping him alive with oxygen. At one point the head doctor of the NICU did approach me and he did state that there were several different times in the first few hours of his ilfe that they almost transported him to another NICU at Long Beach Memorial because his situation was so critical. Any moment that your child is not breathing on his own, is a critical moment to any mom.

My baby did have needles in him no matter what type they were. The nurses showed me where they had taped up the bottom of one foot and had placed a needle in his other foot. I felt the lumps on the bottoms of his feet from all the times he was poked. It may have been to take his blood, but never-the-less, the discomfort that I felt as a mom was still there. He did have tubes coming from all directions and it is a scary sight.

The main point of my inspirational story was to show the kindness that I received from the nurses who showed hope and courage in a situation that seemed uncertain. It is my own personal story and if I misconstrued any of the medical terminology I apologize. I was just grateful to have my son in the best care and I was even more overjoyed when I was able to take him home. May God bless you and your baby.

]]> By: Rebecca Ceballos http://walkingandhealth.com/walking-in-love/#comment-175 Rebecca Ceballos Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:07:54 +0000 http://walkingandhealth.com/?p=25#comment-175 I received this story through a friend and I also have had a preemie. My biggest disappointment was the inaccuracies I found in the story. There is no such thing as a medical induced coma when an infant is transported to another hospital, it is only given sedation to keep the baby comfortable and asleep during the transport. The NICU does not put any needles in the babies and leaves them there, yes there are tubings and moniters leads, but all are plastic including the IV's. The story also stated that the baby nearly died, I don't underestimate the parents anxiousness or worry, nor that the baby was ill. But from my own personal experience, when an infant has fluid in their lungs and can't breathe well, it is put on a ventilator to support the baby because the fluid creates a resistence and is unable to oxygenate properly. This is only temporary and is not severe, and once the fluid clears up, the baby is fine. From the ending of the story and the brief hospital stay the baby had, it seems that is what happened in this case. I am just sorry that the story was written in a manner that implies extreme severity of a common condition with infants that have had to undergo a Cesarean Section. My own baby was born at 24 weeks, he was hopitalized for 7 months, underwent mutiple surgeries and had chronic brain hemorrhages. He truly was near death many times. Again, as a mother of a true micro-preemie, I am truly dissapointed by this inspirational story. I received this story through a friend and I also have had a preemie. My biggest disappointment was the inaccuracies I found in the story. There is no such thing as a medical induced coma when an infant is transported to another hospital, it is only given sedation to keep the baby comfortable and asleep during the transport. The NICU does not put any needles in the babies and leaves them there, yes there are tubings and moniters leads, but all are plastic including the IV’s. The story also stated that the baby nearly died, I don’t underestimate the parents anxiousness or worry, nor that the baby was ill.
But from my own personal experience, when an infant has fluid in their lungs and can’t breathe well, it is put on a ventilator to support the baby because the fluid creates a resistence and is unable to oxygenate properly.
This is only temporary and is not severe, and once the fluid clears up, the baby is fine. From the ending of the story and the brief hospital stay the baby had, it seems that is what happened in this case.
I am just sorry that the story was written in a manner that implies extreme severity of a common condition with infants that have had to undergo a Cesarean Section.
My own baby was born at 24 weeks, he was hopitalized for 7 months, underwent mutiple surgeries and had chronic brain hemorrhages. He truly was near death many times. Again, as a mother of a true micro-preemie, I am truly dissapointed by this inspirational story.

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