The three part series-Baby Hospital, focuses on what happens when birth doesn’t go as planned and baby ends up in intensive care, teetering between life and death. The behind the scenes doc will show viewers what happens when a baby is born as early as sixteen weeks, and provide an insight into the intensely demanding work of the doctors and nurses tasked with doing all they can to save their tiny patients’ lives.
Programme one follows the lives of three families whose babies’ births have involved complications , being starved of oxygen during the birth process. This leaves the families with a heart wrenching wait to learn whether their baby has suffered from long-term brain damage. Mum Amy, 18, knows from the outset that her baby son Charlie may not pull through, however she decides to make the most of every day she has with her child. Sadly Charlie lives for just 12 days having suffered a lack of oxygen, which caused un-repairable damage to his kidneys.
Parents Laura and Phil Pover’s baby daughter Olivia was stillborn two years ago, and they desperately need their new baby son Riley to be well. Riley thankfully survives, but it is at a price, as his family discovers he has suffered some brain damage.
Then there is baby William, who has to be brought back to life at birth. Doctors fear he has severe brain damage and try a pioneering new treatment on him where his body is cooled for three days after birth. Weeks after, William surprises everyone and his MRI brain scan comes back clear.
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