A COUPLE STRANDED In The U.S With Their PREMATURE Baby FIGHTING For Her Life Are All Smiles After Returning Home With Their Daughter THRIVING
Louis Borrill and his fiancee Yeridiana Chazares had been visiting her family in BALTIMORE for a surprise BABY SHOWER but after she woke up the following day with what seemed to be a STRONG FEVER, they decided to go to hospital in nearby ROCKVILLE. After hours of hospital SCANS, doctors said Yeridiana was actually in PRE-TERM LABOUR. They said the waiting period could have been anywhere between a few hours to a few months, and they would have stay in hospital until the BABY WAS BORN.
Louis said: “I don’t even know how I could possibly describe that 24-hour period. We were scrambling around trying to figure out what we had to do and were both obviously very NERVOUS. But we knew we had to REMAIN CALM, knowing our baby could come at any point. Our beautiful Lily decided she had enough of waiting around and came to us two days after her BABY SHOWER and three months earlier than we expected”.
Baby Lily Borrill was born the following morning well ahead of the November DUE DATE and weighing just 1lb, 11oz – and may not be DISCHARGED from hospital for three or four months, meaning the family cannot return to their home in ScUNTHORPE, Lincolnshire until then. Louis said:”Obviously, we were SHOCKED by this, we planned to have Lily in SCUNTHORPE and then we find out that we’re going to have to have her born here, and in the back of our minds realising what was going to come. With Lily being born so PREMATURE, She was NOT MOVING and COULD NOT BREATHE and needed A BREATHING TUBE fitted to SAVE HER LIFE. Since then, Lily has STOPPED BREATHING twice and had to be RESUSCITATED last weekafter having a HEART MURMUR, which doctorshoped could be TREATED with MEDICATION.DUE to being SO PREMATURE, Lily also still has A VESSEL called a PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS (P.D.A), which babies LOSE when they are born. She is set to be REVIEWED by a CARDIOLOGIST who will determine if she will need further sURGERIES after being CHECK
She said: “she spoke about the PAIN Of seeing her first-born child having to be put in an INCUBATOR and continuing to be monitored by doctors and SPECIALIST SURGEONS. Having CONTRACTIONS and a c-SECTION doesn’t compare to the PAIN I felt seeing my first-born in an INCUBATOR covered in TUBES and tinier than I could have ever imagined. All day I blamed myself, thinking that if maybe I had done something differently Lily would have made it to full term. The doctors say Lily is doing great BREATHING, Moving and hopefull getting stronger and stronger. I can’t wait to have her home”.
Yeridiana said: But after five months away from home they have just celebrated her first birthday in SCUNTHORPE, North Lincs. It was a celebration of her strength. We kept thinking ‘Wow you did it Lily, you really made it’. She continues to AMAZE us and we feel so grateful to have her home happy and healthy.
