When one expecting couple went in for a routine 12-week checkup, they were excited to hear how the pregnancy was progressing, but then they heard a few doctors talking quietly amongst themselves and they knew something was wrong.
“The people in the scan room were talking amongst themselves and my partner said ‘there’s something wrong isn’t there?’,” said expecting mom Jade Adams. “They said ‘we think it’s gastroschisis’ and I’d never heard of it.” Two days later, doctors confirmed that baby Darcie had gastroschisis, a condition where the abdominal wall doesn’t form properly and the intestines grow outside the body.
“When they told us that she gastroschisis I was absolutely devastated. It was awful,” Jade said. “But she came out and she was breathing completely all on her own. They wrapped her up in clingfilm – just like the stuff you have in the drawer at home – and it went all around her body from the front to the back and around again.”
“Ten minutes after she was born she was gone with Lewis to Great Ormond Street. I had to give consent for them to operate on the phone which was absolutely awful because I just wanted to be with her. They wrapped her intestines in the cling film again but by the time I got there she had had the operation. She made it through one hell of a fight, six operations and a total of 16 weeks in hospital. We are so proud of her,” said Jade, who is just relieved to have Darcie home. “She’s fine now – rolling around absolutely fine.”
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