Originally Posted By: flacoman
Daughter born with the cord around her neck, spent the first few days of her life in there. Make sure you rest, you can't take care of the baby if you're not awake! One thing's for sure , your sense of fear gets re- calibrated by stuff like this !
All the best
Jorge
I agree with the fear re-calibration. Everything in life pales in comparison to our hopes and worry over our kids. Our daughter had a difficult delivery and had to go to emergency c-section. Because of the trauma, she had nerve damage in her neck, so that when she was born, her right arm didn't work at all. The doctors said if it was a nerve tear, it would never work, but if it was a nerve stretch, it may come back. Nothing in my life prepared me for the fear and worry I had for this little angel in the first few hours and days of her life. Thankfully, babies can rebound quickly and within 4 days we noticed twitches in her arm. At 6 days things were almost normal, and at 1 month, she had recovered fully.
This is nothing compared to what some of the babies and their parents have gone through as laid out above. And knowing the fear, concern and worry I went through over this with my own daughter (whose health issue was very minor compared to some of these kids), I can't imagine what some of these families are going through.
God bless and all the best to those kids that are suffering, and to their families who share that suffering. There is nothing more important than the health and happiness of these little ones.