Hello,
This might be better in children's health, but its about my future concerns for dc2 so not sure really. Sorry for the length...
I've never found anyone whose DC has had similar, and the midwifes I've spoken to so far this pregnancy have been rather clueless about newborn health ("we deal with the mother, paeds deal with the baby" :o)
DS was born in 2011 via emcs after a very long induced (drip) labour and over 2 hours failed pushing.
He was fine when he came out but was sleepy from as soon as we got to recovery. His temperature then started to fall and he became jittery, however due to shift changes this was not immediately picked up by medics.
At about 2am (he was born just before 6pm) he was rushed away from me on the post natal ward and taken to NICU. All I was told at that stage was that he needed to be on a drip for a possible infection.
To cut a long story short he had polycythaemia which was explained to me in my post cs haze as 'sticky blood'. His blood was thinned down using a drip and he was in an incubator to raise his temperature.
Whilst he was in NICU I was also unwell and had a blood transfusion.
After he was released from NICU (3 days) he then developed jaundice (always just below the treatment line) which persisted for at least 3 weeks. He took the same amount of time to regain birthweight too and I came under an immense amount of pressure from the midwives visiting at home to sort this out.
So.... DC2 will be born via elcs in October and I guess what I'm asking is how likely is this to happen again? I can find very little information regarding causes of polycythaemia other than a link to delayed clamping - and I have no idea how long my cord was left for with DS.
Can anyone help me?
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PseudoBadger · 16/07/2013 07:04
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