My precious angel Isabella was born at 37 w due to iso-immunisation.My blood levels were sky high and my ob thought that it would be wiser to transfer me to the royal womens in melb for inducement.
We were meant to be induced at 8am but by 2pm, they finally found me a bed and i was induced.5 hours later Bella was born with her cord wrapped around her neck tightly....I saw her for a second and they took her up to NICU.I was allowed to rest for an hour and then was sent up to the ward,DH was allowed to stay with me until we were told that we were allowed up in NICU to see our baby.
We went up to be told that she was very sick and that she needed a double volume blood transfusion and a platelet transfusion straight away, I wasn't allowed to touch her and I was starting to feel useless. Went back downstairs to the ward where i had a rest.
At 10pm that next night DH was told he couldn't come up to the ward to get me so I discharged myself and went up to see my daughter. By this time she had tubes and lines coming out from all around her, but i still wasn't allowed to touch her.DH and I went downstairs and across the road to the flats and then went and got some food(1am).
6am next morning received a phone call saying that the blood transfusion had finished and we could come back up..she still had the lines in just in case she needed another lot of blood. She had to have B/T every 4 hours, so we went up to check on her then.
After four days under the phototherapy lights in NICU, Bella was finally moved into the SCN nursery.She still wasn't out of danger, but her condition had improved. The Paed came in and said that one set of lights could be taken away, but we had to keep checking her levels.After that, when the first lot of blood came back we found that her levels had risen again.Second set of bloods came back 4 hrs later and her levels had stabled.I was allowed to touch her now, but still couldn't have a cuddle! Every time after that she seemed to get better, the next morning they took the second set off her and her levels rose, then steadied out again.By the third day, when all the lights were off her, i was allowed to cuddle and feed her for the first time.Two days before we wanted to come home with Bella, we had to make a flying trip home to get our two eldest children ready to start school again after the holidays. It was then I promised my eldest daughter that her baby sister would be home in 2 days.
Bella's levels rose that night and it seemed like she wouldn't be allowed to come home, but after the took her last bloods the results were good, so 1 week after Bella was born she came home.
She has had two more transfusions since , one at 3 months and the other at 4 months.Her levels are now stable and she has been giving the all clear.