New or expecting mothers can sometimes seem paranoid about their baby’s health, but one mother had to learn the hard way to never ignore her maternal instinct even when doctors tried to persuade her that everything was ‘fine’.
Ayesha Newell and husband Martin gave birth to their first daughter Lulu at the world’s most expensive private hospital in the world, the Matilda International Hospital in Hong Kong, but the Australian couple first noticed an infection around the stump of their daughter’s umbilical cord just days after being born on May 7.
Doctors told the new parents that their daughter was perfectly healthy, and discharged them from the hospital. “We took her for a routine follow-up and a paediatrician said the case was quite serious, but only prescribed antibiotics and ointments and told us to wait another 48 hours,” Martin said.
Ayesha was convinced it was more serious, and contacted a family friend and pediatrician back in Australia who told her to get straight to the hospital as she had been infected with golden staph.
“By the next morning we had found out it was septicemia and they then said she needed a lumbar puncture,” Martin said. “This was only a week after she was born, but a couple of days before we’d taken her to the pediatrician who’d basically sent Lulu home to die over the weekend.”
Thankfully, the treatment was successful, and Lulu is finally healthy again at three weeks old.
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[Featured image credit: Martin Newell]
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