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Shae
We were so excited that day october 7th, we brought my 7 year old daughter, my mum and Kas's mum along and were trying to guess the sex of the baby, we never thought for a second something could be wrong! And that was where the nightmare began, we discovered we were having a boy but they saw a sparkling in his gut which they suspected was cystic fibrosis and they noticed he was small for dates.
We endured a slow awful weekend waiting for our appointment at Kings the following monday where I was given an amniocentesis, they scanned me for ages and found the placenta wasnt working properly and that the baby was likely to die in the next 2 weeks. How we got through the next almost 2 months I dont know, we went back every week for them to scan and measure his growth not knowing if he would have died in the meantime. I used to panic so much if I couldnt feel him kick!! We were told he would never make 500g and they wouldnt intervene before then, but by some miracle he just got there - maybe it was the fact I was eating everything I could in the hope some would get to him!! In the 3 arteries in the umbilical tube, the blood flow was absent in 1, reversed in 1 so he only had a third of what he should and that was failing!
On the 28th november the consultant decided he had a better chance out than in as he was weighing approx 530g. I was to come back the next day to be delivered. We waited for 2 days for a cot in intensive care to become available and Shae Kassim Evans was finally born at 10.34am on 1/12/2005 by elective caesarean weighing 1lb 5oz.
I was so scared that morning, I couldnt stop shaking, the consultant paediatrician had been to see us and said with his size he didnt have a very good chance of survival, we were told he wouldnt cry and that he would be ventilated and whisked straight off to intensive care. I lay on the operating table and couldnt even remember what handed I was when the surgeon asked me! They put the screen up and began cutting me, the whole time Kas tried to take my mind off it by talking to me about which Liverpool player had the most red cards!! Eventually they put the screen down and there he was tiny but so gorgeous and did he cry?? I really believed at that point he would be ok, Kas was crying, I was crying and so was Shae. The doctors just kept smiling at him, I dont think they expected him to live. It wasnt until 7pm when I got to see him again, he was sedated and ventilated in an incubator in intensive care, then his size really hit me, he was so tiny but so perfect! He looked exactly like his dad, the same grumpy face and I fell in love with him straight away.
Sadly although my little boy foughtso hard he was never to leave intensive care 1 on the frederic still ward, kings College Hospital and after many problems he finally decided he had enough on the 24th May 2006 aged almost 6 months and now hes angel, he will never grow but will stay our baby!
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