Posted on 06/19/2008 5:28:19 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Mumbai, India (AHN) - Nearly five hours after being stillborn following a pre-mature delivery, an infant started breathing again to life when the relatives were carrying her to cemetery.
The 30-year-old mother Aruna Gaikwad from western-Indian city of Mumbai was admitted to Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital on June 15 after being refused from three reputed city hospitals. She suffered from convulsions resulting from high blood-pressure in her pregnancy in the seventh month of gestation.
Gaikwad was induced labor to undergo delivery and was put on anti-convulgents and anti-hypertensive therapy. The baby was delivered on the evening on June 16. As no heartbeat was felt, the doctors declared the child was stillborn.
While the members of the family were heading to make funeral preparations, the baby girl started gasping. The family immediately took her back to the hospital, where she is being kept in the neonatal intensive care unit. The baby, who weighs 1,400 grams, is critical and is on a ventilator, reports The Times of India newspaper.
The doctors believe that a high dose of sedatives coupled with the convulsions may have suppressed the fetal heart beat and when the effect of the sedative wore off, she started breathing again.
Hospital dean Dr. Suleiman Merchant told the newspaper that though a preliminary inquiry shows that the child was presumed dead on visual observation but the authorities are making a detailed inquiry to rule out any negligence.
I guess Docs do not use the old...'check the pulse' method in that part of India :o
Prayers for baby.....
Prayers for the little one.
The baby weighs 1400 grams...that’s over 3 pounds. A baby at that weight in the US would almost certainly survive.
In India, the mere fact that this baby is a girl, they probably didn’t care if the baby would die from the meds the mother was given. Why was the mother turned away from the other hospitals? Did she belong to the wrong HMO?
Even smaller! I worked with a woman who had twins early. Both were only 1.5 lbs. One lived and grew up just fine, however, the other didn’t make it.
Same thing happened to my Aunt; one twin lived, the other was born without his kidneys and didn’t make it.
My cousin just lost one of her twins at 6 months along (heartbreaking!) but the other is doing great and is scheduled to be born this summer.
Nature does what she wants in most cases.
My cousin had twins 20 years ago. One of them only weighed 1 lb, 12 oz. The other one weighed 4 pounds. The smaller boy needed growth hormones and had cataract surgery, but other than that, is healthy. Both boys are now college students.
In the US they would have done an emergency C-section on an eclamptic mother, not an induced delivery, with the idea of giving both the baby and the mother the best chance.
The woman must have been poor, to be turned away at three hospitals. Most Indian hospitals are cash up front. In the US, any woman in labor or any person in a life-threatening condition like eclampsia must be treated.
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