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Baby starved of oxygen at birth now a ‘bundle of energy’
A baby who did not breathe for เล่นสล็อต six minutes after being born is now “a bundle of energy”, his mother said.
Lauren Mannell, 21, from Barrow in Suffolk, had Ollie Codd by emergency Caesarean at West Suffolk Hospital.
He was transferred to the neo-natal intensive care unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, a few hours later for cooling treatment.
The next day his mother tested positive for Covid-19 and was unable to be with him for nine days.
Miss Mannell said her pregnancy was fine and when she went into labour at the hospital in Bury St Edmunds, it was “going smoothly”.
After several complications he was delivered by Caesarean section.
“It was all a blur. They got him out, but I couldn’t hear any crying; I just heard panic in the room,” she said.
“We didn’t know if he was alive to begin with.
“Staff then told me he ‘isn’t dead, but he’s not in the best state and we are working on him now’.”
The mother said she later found out that when he was born at 15:20 GMT on 3 January, it was six minutes before he drew his first breath.
That evening, while his mother remained at West Suffolk, her son was transferred to Addenbrooke’s neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU), where his temperature was lowered to 32C for 72 hours.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that cooling babies who are deprived of oxygen at birth improves their chances of growing up without disabilities such as cerebral palsy.
“I was told he was the sickest baby in the NICU at that time,” Ms Mannell said.
The next day she took a Covid test, which was negative, and was taken to Addenbrooke’s so she could be with him.
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