It's World Prematurity Day, and to raise awareness, LancsLive's own Jake Oates and his wife, Naomi, have shared their personal story
Excitement and fear. These are both things that I would imagine all parents-to-be feel prior to their child being born. But knowing that your son is coming almost two months early brought those feelings about much more suddenly than I was ever expecting.
Prior to this, it had been a relatively stress-free pregnancy. But that day in hospital and not coming home after an hour or so, like we had both hoped, was the start of an unbelievable few weeks. We stayed in the hospital together that night and the next day, with Finley not meeting the criteria needed to be sent home.
It took my wife Naomi and I to some tough places. We were living separately at the time as our house was a building site and while work was due to be finished before the baby was supposed to arrive, it certainly made things tougher. I remember one night we were texting each other saying that part of us wished something would happen so that it would bring an end to the daily hospital visits, the daily unknown, the fear of Naomi going on the monitor and there being no heartbeat.
I was the first one to go and visit him alone in NICU and after no sleep for the best part of 20 hours at that point, I was struggling.
Nothing prepares you for life with a premature baby. Simple things that many might not pay much mind to like learning how to change a nappy side on, with your hands in an incubator through two small doors, learning how to use an ng tube to feed your baby and having to ask permission to hold your child. All firsts that no parent ever expects to have to deal with. When we were ready for discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit , he had to pass his car seat test.
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