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'Our little miracle': Pandora Charms Sale Clearance Baby born at just 23 weeks and given just a 1% chance of survival defies doctors' expectations to live
Esme Poulsom was given just a one per cent chance of survival when her mother Kirsty Barrett's waters broke after just 19 weeksEsme was so fragile and her mother so ill after the birth that she was not allowed to see her for two agonising daysAgainst all the odds, Esme is now eight
Baby Esme (pictured with sister Ava, 2, father Gareth Poulsom, 27, and mother Kirsty Barrett, 24) has defied doctors to survive despite being born four months prematurely
Esme was so fragile and Ms Barrett was so ill after the birth that she was not allowed to see her new baby for two agonising days.
Doctors warned the couple that the first weeks of Esme's life were 'touch and go' and she may not survive.
Four days after Ms Barrett's waters broke doctors at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, Gwent told her she would either miscarry or give birth within 48 hours. Neither happened and her labour calmed but doctors warned there was no chance of the baby surviving without waters
They claim medics at one hospital 'gave up' on Esme even before she was born and have since failed to properly address her ongoing problems.
Esme's remarkable story began last November when Ms Barrett went into labour just 19 weeks into her pregnancy.
Four days later her waters broke and Ms Barrett said doctors at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, Gwent told her she would either miscarry or give birth within 48 hours.
Neither happened and her labour
calmed but doctors warned there was no chance of the baby surviving
without waters and said the pregnancy would stop developing normally.
They recommended an abortion but Ms Barrett and Mr Poulson refused and decided to let nature take its course.
They recommended an abortion but Kirsty and Gareth refused and decided to let nature take its course
Two week after her waters broke and still having contractions Pandora Earrings Clearance Ms Barrett was discharged. She said: 'I was told at Nevill Hall that Pandora Necklaces Clearance if I got to 23 weeks I could have steroids to stop the contractions but when I reached 23 weeks I was told I couldn't have them'
Two weeks after Ms Barrett's waters broke and still having periodic contractions she was discharged New Pandora Twinkle Little Star Gift Set (SB3433) Clearance and put herself on bed rest at home in Pontypool, Gwent.
She said: 'I was told at Nevill Hall that if I got to 23 weeks I could have steroids to stop the contractions and help viability at around 24 weeks.
'But when I reached 23 weeks I was told they wouldn't give me steroids because they felt I would miscarry.
'It felt like they had given up.'
Ms Barrett knew of someone at the Royal Gwent Hospital in nearby Newport who had been given steroids in a similar situation.
Mr Poulson contacted them and a doctor agreed to take over his partner's care if she could get transferred.
Ms Barrett knew of someone at the Royal Gwent Hospital in nearby Newport who had been given steroids in a similar situation. Gareth contacted them and a doctor agreed to take over her care if she could get transferred. Within 20 minutes of the transfer Kirsty was given a steroid injection
Ms Barrett claims that Nevill Hall initially refused to the transfer, saying Ms Barrett was in active labour but they relented after agreeing that the baby's head was not engaged.
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