23 Week Babies - anyone watching?

[deemented]

About to start on bbc2 now.

My boys were prem and my friend has a 23 weeker.

Tissues at the ready.

'You spend all that money and the baby dies anyway' 'Seems like a waste of money to me'

What a callous cow.

eeek!! That was awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

geepers what lovely boys, lol at the pic of Joe with his cake

I don't think it's callous.

She has spent years and years working with these tiny and vulnerable babies and it's her experience talking I think.

not great wiping!

Not sure I have many tears left

geordie, I was only a little while ago looking at the photos of Riven's dd's birthday party on FB. She looked so gorgeous and happy, but but it is a wonder of modern medicene that she is alive today, and her outlook is not that great.

My dd is also 7 this week. In some ways they are very different but in many ways the same - want the same stuff for their birthday for example. They both have a life, parents who love them, school, friends etc etc. Who should get to decide? The doctors, the parents?

Wonder would the same be said of an organ recipient, that went on to die, or someone who'd had a heart attack and was saved... then died??

Why is a new life worth less than one that has lived many years?

oh wow Matilda!

Aww, thank god, a positive ending for gorgeous Matilda.

I can't watch............. Jack was born at 26 weeks but only lived for two hours. I am staying with family tonight but dont feel strong enough to watch!!

Oh that hat!!!

awwww she looks like a little pudding, gorgeous

To think she is the only surviving 23 week old baby in six months.

Lovely mum and dad

Matilda doesn't look quire right, I fear there may be some lasting disability.

Matilda has the classic 'prem' look. They do eventually grow out of it.

She does look a little stiff, but she has had a brain bleed so they are anticipating problems

Its funny how the doctors say one thing and parents say the opposite!

There needs to be an advocate for these babies who cant speak for themselves.

That's reassuring deemented.

I am just SO sorry for anyone who has gone through this.

It's funny how you don't notice the perm look in your own baby. i can spot it a mile off in other babies but think mine look perfectly normal.

aww the mum and dad can't stop looking at her.

Oh I wasn't saying that they shouldn't be supported, I was saying that was how she felt. She said tins morning that she doesn't enjoy her life anymore, which was so sad.

Well, given that babies can't actually speak for themselves, who exactly would you have advocate for them?

Doctors can detach themselves. Parents can't. They have all the emotions. It's their child.