Think this deserves some more recognition

[Dawnybabe]

justice4jayden.webs.com/jaydensstory.htm

Was in my local paper today, girl had baby at 22 weeks or so and doctors wouldn't try and save him because he wasn't old enough to be considered 'viable'
I appreciate we have to have guidelines and to draw the line somewhere but I think there should be due consideration on each individual case. Just wondered what other MNers thought.

i think it is impossible to debate this without touching on a child being born injured or very compromised and what that means for the child, parents and any siblings

have posted on the other thread too

i firmly believe that this baby had two peaceful quiet hours with his mother and died in her amrs, which is far better than aggresive treatment in SCBU, feeling pain when on balance there was a miniscule , miniscule chance of survival

not every baby can make it

And I am unrealistic I guess as I think even a miniscule chance is still a chance and the baby should be given as much.

RIP Jayden.

i think you have to weigh it up against the pain and suffering of the baby, and the emotional trauma for the mother.

doctors and medics have to make life & death decisions all the time, and those decisions have to be based on research and knowledge , it is not just an arbitary decision

(Hi, tmmj!)

I see this has also been discussed on a thread entitled 'no treatment for baby born at 21 weeks' (might be different baby) but this has now been aired on the local radio and sparked a debate in the regional paper. I hope the poor girl gets her recognition because the more I hear about this, the more I think that the current guidelines cannot possibly apply to every single premature baby. We all know how different babies and children are from one milestone to the next. Surely a premature baby deserves recognition that he is individual even at that stage and needs to be measured on his own merits?

can I just nicely ask the op why she put this thread in bereavement, surely this is a topic for people to talk about their losses, not a news story.

You're right of course. I don't know why I put it in bereavement. Thought about it afterwards but was a bit too late by then. I believe it is running in the news section under someone else, or a very similar story is.

The other thing to bear in mind is that there are a very limited number of NICU cots in this country. Had this baby been resuscitated it could have meant that a baby with a much greater chance of survival either wouldn't have had NICU cot or would have needed to be transferred to another hospital, which is obviously very risky for a sick baby.