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Please tell me this isn't true?

11 replies

TotallyandUtterly · 10/03/2011 22:03

This government are going to leave prem babies to die if they need oxygen/resuscitation? Surely not?

I've got 4 prem babies in my family and they're growing up into amazing children. Why on earth shouldn't prem babies be given a chance of life?

I can't believe it. This can't be true?? It's barbaric.

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GypsyMoth · 10/03/2011 22:05

where is this from??

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TotallyandUtterly · 10/03/2011 22:06

Hype on facebook about it. Apparently it was on some TV show I missed and really wish I'd seen. I need to research it, but thought if anyone will know about it MN will.

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hocuspontas · 10/03/2011 22:06

I think it's 23 weeks. I can't remember where I've seen this today.

hocuspontas · 10/03/2011 22:07

Oh, there's a thread about it. Wright Stuff is in the title.

Pagwatch · 10/03/2011 22:08

That is the most ridiculous exaggeration of a tv programme I have ever seem.

Facebook really is populated by dimwits.

There was a programme discussing the huge difficulties surround the issues of babies born, very specifically at 23 weeks.

Nothing to do with the government.

GetOrfMoiLand · 10/03/2011 22:10

Oh for crying out loud. Don't believe something which a bunch of dullards have written on facebook. Leaving prems to die is not policy now.

Portofino · 10/03/2011 22:10

FFS. Nothing to do with the government. There was a programmne on last night that discussed the fact that babies born at 23 weeks - the earliest possible - mostly die, so should efforts be made or bot.

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TotallyandUtterly · 10/03/2011 22:12

Thank fook for that. Our premmies are perfectly fine and were born at 24 weeks.

FB deceives once again

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mumbar · 10/03/2011 22:22

My cousin was 23+5 and seems perfectly fine - well she is perfect.

Not my opinion - but the talk was basically about the cost to nurse premmies, weighed against the chances of survival and the outcome of survival. It was like any documentary - just one side of the story. It does did show others. (eg the parents/ Drs / Nurses)

Glad your premmies are ok.

HouseGirlfriend · 10/03/2011 22:26

The programme also said that if so much money is going into pulling 23wk old babies through, that there should then be money put into care for the disabled adults that then live.

There was a depressed 18yr old with cerebral palsy who felt a bit rubbish that hospital was happy to keep her alive but now shes 18 no one wants to help :(

Think it was a difficult one really, and very very sad. Can't get my head round 22wks = miscarriage, 23wks = prem baby

JaneS · 10/03/2011 22:32

I found that programme really hard to watch, but one thing that really struck me was that apparently in Britain we have much higher rates of 23-week births than lots of other European countries, and more money could be put into trying to prevent these. I didn't agree with a lot of what the programme was implying, but I did agree with that and I'm sure anyone would.

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