Amazing Story of a
Mother ...Mom's love is great .
Doctor says Sorry but
mother bring life in baby ie So always
believe their is God in the feet of Mother
When
Carolyn Isbister put her 20oz baby on her chest for a cuddle, she thought that
it would be the only chance she would ever have to hold her.
Doctors
had told the parents that baby Rachel only had only minutes to live because her
heart was beating once every ten seconds and she was not breathing.
Isbister
remembers: I didn’t want her to die being cold. So I lifted her out of her
blanket and put her against my skin to warm her up. Her feet were so cold.
It
was the only cuddle I was going to have with her, so I wanted to remember the
moment.” Then something remarkable happened. The warmth of her mother’s skin
kick started Rachael’s heart into beating properly, which allowed her to take
little breaths of her own.
We
couldn’t believe it – and neither could the doctors. She let out a tiny cry.
The
doctors came in and said there was still no hope – but I wasn’t letting go of
her. We had her blessed by the hospital chaplain, and waited for her to slip
away. But she still hung on.
And
then amazingly the pink colour began to return to her cheeks. She literally was
turning from gray to pink before our eyes, and she began to warm up too.
The
sad part is that when the baby was born, doctors took one look at her and said
‘no’.
They
didn’t even try to help her with her breathing as they said it would just
prolong her dying. Everyone just gave up on her,” her mom remembered.
At
24 weeks a womb infection had led to her premature labour and birth and
Isbister (who also has two children Samuel, 10, and Kirsten, 8 ) said, “We were
terrified we were going to lose her. I had suffered three miscarriages before,
so we didn’t think there was much hope.” When Rachael was born she was grey and
lifeless.
Ian
Laing, a consultant neonatologist at the hospital, said: “All the signs were
that the little one was not going to make it and we took the decision to let
mum have a cuddle as it was all we could do.
Two
hours later the wee thing was crying. This is indeed a miracle baby and I have
seen nothing like it in my 27 years of practice. I have not the slightest doubt
that mother’s love saved her daughter.”
Rachael
was moved onto a ventilator where she continued to make steady progress and was
tube and syringe fed her mother’s pumped breastmilk.
Isbister
said, “The doctors said that she had proved she was a fighter and that she now
deserved some intensive care as there was some hope. She had done it all on her
own – without any medical intervention or drugs. She had clung on to life – and
it was all because of that cuddle. It had warmed up her body and regulated her
heart and breathing enough for her to start fighting.
At
5 weeks she was taken off the ventilator and began breastfeeding on her own. At
four months Rachel went home with her parents, weighing 8lbs – the same as any
other healthy newborn. Because Rachel had suffered from a lack of oxygen
doctors said there was a high risk of damage to her brain. But a scan showed no
evidence of any problems and today Rachel is on par with her peers.
Rachel’s
mom tells us, “She is doing so well. When we brought her home, the doctors told
us that she was a remarkable little girl. And most of all, she just loves her
cuddles. She will sleep for hours, just curled into my chest. It was that first
cuddle which saved her life – and I’m just so glad I trusted my instinct and
picked her up when I did. Otherwise she wouldn’t be here today.”
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