A little Miracle
Gregor born 31 March 2008 in Campbeltown Maternity Unit at 1:55am, 1lb 14½oz. Due date was 16 July 2008 born 15½ weeks early – given 10-15% chance in life over the first 24/48 hours. He’s the lightest & the earliest gestational survivor ever born in Campbeltown that’s on record. He was transferred to the Special Care Baby Unit of the Queen Mothers hospital by the transport team.
For 10 weeks he remained in the Intensive Care Unit in an incubator where he received care mostly with his breathing as his lungs are so immature. He also had laser eye surgery at the beginning of June. Apart from that he was really a wee star and amazed all the medical staff with his progress, he really didn’t have many ‘down’ times – he continued to feed well & put on loads of weight & with that his breathing progressed. For the remaining 7 weeks, he advanced through the different wards, High Dependency then to Special Care, where he grew bigger, his breathing continued to improve, and he started to ‘suck’ all his feeds. We also got him out & about in his pram so we could get used to him being on oxygen and away from all the monitors. Then eventually – just out of the blue - we could see light at the end of the tunnel, the procedures had been put in place for his discharge – we returned home on 26th July 2008 after 17 weeks.
We would like to thank the community, family, friends & colleagues if we could as the support, good wishes, prayers, presents, cards etc were overwhelming. There was also fundraising going on for us while we were up the road and overall (so far) there has been £1000 raised & given to Ronald McDonald house – where we stayed for the duration of Gregor’s time in the hospital & £1550 raised and given to the Queen Mothers (SCBU).
The biggest ‘thanks’ and really no words can express how much – must go to the team that were in Campbeltown Hospital that night – Isobel Cook, Elspeth Colville, Ann McMillan, John Mathieson & Doctor Leask. If it wasn’t for the staff in Campbeltown Hospital that night, Gregor would not be here, he would never have survived.
Day 1 in Campbeltown
Day 22 - Wedding Ring
Day 34 - Cheeky!
Day 62 - Family Portrait - Gregor with proud parents Martine and Keith Craig
What's the score?!
Yeah!! Home!
Truly wonderful story.
All the best to u all.
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