My grandchild was born this morning. My DD2 had a difficult and very long (3 day ) labour . Baby is currently in intensive care , intubated, ventilated, paralysed (to stop him fighting the ventilator) with tubes everywhere. He was in severe distress and had inhaled a lot of meconium.
DD2 is exhausted..she was incredible her lovely dh tells me, and in a room where she can hear other babies with their Mums while her son (her first..and my first grandchild) is wired up and fighting for his life.
He's gorgeous.. a shock of dark hair which is a surprise as she is very blonde, and he's a chunk (she's tiny!). But he's a very unwell chunk
I want to support her, but she's there, I'm not even allowed to visit.. and baby will be there for some time.
He should be been got out earlier IMO.. it was obvious it wasn't going well.. but that's for future review. We just want him to be well, and for DD2 to be able to hold him.