My son, Jacob. subcostal retractions respiratory distress

The doctors were explaining to me that Jacob probably had fluids in his lungs and that they would likely be absorbed into his body during his first 6 hours of life. Unfortunately that didn't happen. They took him to NICU and did an x-ray on him. They found that his left lung is partially collapsed. He's going to be okay, but theres a one to two week recovery time.

As of right now (24 hours old) he's been breathing pure oxygen for about 19 hours and is getting better and his skin color is pink and perfect.

We're hoping he gets to come home with us when Evan's discharged from the hospital on Saturday.

We love you Jake!

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[beneye1]

Add "Subcostal retractions" on the title for educational purposes so students can find it, it helped me. Nice video, hope the kid is up and running and ruining your furniture :-D

[rubanek]

@beneye1 good idea. done and done. and yes... he's finally potty trained but for a while there he was soiling the furniture :) thanks!

[joyzerelly]

Poor little mite. Was his cord cut straight away? It looks likely with his bulging red stump. If his cord was cut straight away that will have prevented much of his blood, oxygenated blood from circulating from the placenta into him. Please do some reading about this when you decide to give gorgeous little Jacob a sibling. :)

[UtubeDuDeDuh]

Aww bless him xo Hope he is doing great!!

[gogoktsn]

Thank you for posting! Helped me learn more about ARDS for school!!

[greeneyes2807]

sry to hear that...instead of witing 6 hours they should have done x-ray before so you would have known....it would have scared me to death if this was my son...wich his name is also jacob <3

[GiftedBirth]

@AAA4509 the transfusion of blood from the placenta to the baby expands and erects the tissue of the lungs and is the mechanism that clears fluid from the lungs. This baby may have had a physiological birth with an intact cord and no interruption to the placental transfusion - his respiratory distress, retraction, nasal flaring and/or collapsed lung may have been caused by sometime totally unrelated, you're right. I'm genuinely sorry for whatever caused this baby birth trauma.

[AAA4509]

@GiftedBirth You don't know if the clamping was the cause in this specific case, do you also believe that clamping can cause autism as well ?

[GiftedBirth]

Oh my goodness, poor baby struggling to breathe. With all that blood at the umbilical cord it is obvious his cord was clamped before he had adequate blood volume to perfuse his lungs. Check out the work of Judith Mercer et al, I'm sorry cord clamping hurt your baby :(