Premature baby allowed to die because it was "against the rules" to help him

I have just replied to your other discussion. It is disgusting that they allowed this child to die! When I was pregnant with my second daughter I had a show at 31 weeks and they gave me steroid injections to build up her lungs but luckily for me she didnt make an apperance until I was 38 weeks. This is awful this woman has suffered 5 miscarriages, she proably wont try for another due to the heartache of losing 6 children now.

My toddler son was born in 2007 and he spent three weeks in a special care baby unit. I thought medical staff would try to keep any premature baby alive. I didn't think there was a cut off date. I have heard about babies born at 23 and 24 weeks living if they have they respond well to medical care. It is worth trying to save the life of any premature babies.

At the moment two of my friends are pregnant. One is due on 27th February 2010 and the other is due on 2nd March. I find it sick that a hospital thought they could let a premature baby to die because it would be against the rules to help him. They are willing to do an abortion for any lady up to 24 weeks pregnancy. They offered me an abortion at 36 weeks pregnancy. I said no way and think they have some very silly rules.

My two year old son is alive today thanks to the excellent care he received in NICU as a premature baby. I am horrified at what may have happened had he been born in a place such as that poor woman's innocent child that they murdered by way of negligence. Who knows what great things that baby could have grown up to do had he been allowed to live? This child was WANTED ad LOVED, he would have survived if only they'd helped him a bit!

Keep in mind that Obama is being advised by one guy who feels that it is acceptable to "abort" a child UP TO TWO YEARS AFTER IT IS BORN (Holdren), and another czar (Emmanuel) who thinks it is RIGHT to deny lifesaving care to children under 15 years of age or over 40 years of age! THESE ae the people who will help Obama shape the policies for healthcare in the US if the socialized medicine goes through.

This is beyond being outrageous! This child was BORN, it had all it's moving parts, strong heartbeat and breathed on it's own. Surely discretion could have been used to waive those two damn days and give it a fighting chance! So much for the Hippocratic Oath eh? If this had happened in a third world country I wouldn't have been surprised. But ENGLAND? I'm sickened. And they were following GUIDELINES not fixed policy. Do none of the Doctors know the meaning of a discretionary decision? Shameful!
In a good hospital in the States, I really can't see this happening, and it certainly wouldn't happen in Canada, but hells bells, your Pres. scares me with his medicare ideas and who knows what the future brings.

This is just awful for the mother. How could a medical professional (team of medical professionals) not do anything in their power to save the baby. I know that my heart wouldn't allow me to do what they did. I'd fight for the child until the last possible moment. Now, we will never know if the baby would have made it. In today's world of all the high-tech medical care, more and more premature babies are surviving and her son could have been a miracle.
An event like this would both shatter my dreams of being a mother in light of the previous miscarriage and it would also shatter my confidence in medical professionals.

Life is LIFE for God's sake and this was a special little human being. What did they possibly have to lose by at least TRYING to save this baby boy? Stories like this break my heart and it's such a tragic set of circumstances. 2 days too early??? What an absolute crock of sh!t. And what about THIS section from the article:

"Miss Capewell, 23, said doctors refused to even see her son Jayden, who lived for almost two hours without any medical support.

She said he was breathing unaided, had a strong heartbeat and was even moving his arms and legs, but medics refused to admit him to a special care baby unit."

Her Son lived for 2 hours unassisted before he passed away??? How could the medical staff NOT see this as a sign that this little baby boy had a fighting chance? How could we possibly ever imagine what those 2 hours must have been like for the Mother? I understand the need for rules and regulations, but there are ALWAYS exceptions and this should've been one of them.

This is so phucking sick to do this to that baby & his mother..how utterly sad this is.. i feel so bad for the poor mother & jayden...Such sad things coming out in thenews about children...lori

And people really want 0bama to mandate our health care system? If you think this is bad, imagine what it's going to be like after a few months of 0's Animal Farm medicine system.

The grief this poor woman is feeling is understandable. I was lucky that my DD was born without complications through a c-section. She was born a couple days before her actual due date, but my OB assured me that everything was fine and it was OK for her to be born. I can't imagine having to go through something like this. Just obsurd that with all the medical intervention that doctors felt 2 days was a death sentence.

That's just wrong. In a day and age where modern medicine is learning how to save younger and younger preemies, who's to say that this one couldn't have been saved?

hi sndcain36 this is unbelievable how can a doctor do something like'this? What rules this I do not belive, I have worked in hospitals all my life and have never heard of such a rule. could the mother possibly have been mistaken? maybe they did all they could and the baby died anyway. doctors are human they are not God. four months early would be almost impossible to save at all.