It seems that this is news from the world of science fiction: to save the unborn baby, doctors gave him 6 blood transfusions in the womb. Thanks to this, the woman managed to inform the baby. The baby was born at 38 weeks of gestation.
“A beautiful girl weighing 3400 g and 51 cm long was born with an Apgar score of 9/9! Most importantly, the baby did not need a blood transfusion after giving birth, ”the employees of St. Petersburg maternity hospital No. 17 shared their excellent news.
The baby needed the transfusion because of a severe form of hemolytic disease – this is a serious complication in Rh-conflict between the mother and the fetus. A pregnant woman with Rh negative blood develops anti-Rh bodies. They enter the baby’s blood through the placenta and destroy the baby’s red blood cells (red blood cells), which leads to hemolytic jaundice in newborns.
“My daughter is doing well. After birth, she was put into intensive care under a lamp to prevent jaundice, ” the girl’s mother, Natalya Nerusskova, told healthy-food-near-me.com. – No additional treatment is required, but constant monitoring of hemoglobin is needed. Until 16 weeks of pregnancy, I had toxicosis. But overall, the pregnancy went well. I led an active lifestyle. The Rh-conflict does not affect the mother in any way, only the child suffers if the necessary treatment is not carried out. “
For Natalia, this is the third pregnancy. She and her husband have a second blood group, only Natalia has a negative Rh factor, and her husband has a positive one. In the first pregnancy, the Rh-conflict did not happen. Complications began when the woman was carrying her second baby.
In 2017, during pregnancy with her second son, she was diagnosed with Rh-conflict. There were 3 intrauterine transfusions and a caesarean section at 37 weeks. A week later we were discharged home. The child is absolutely healthy. In September he will be 3 years old. So in this pregnancy I was no longer afraid of transfusions – there was an experience. “
Blood transfusion is a very delicate process. First you need to carefully select the blood itself, which will be suitable not only for the fetus, but also for the mother. Blood is transfused to the baby through the umbilical cord vein. To do this, first, using an ultrasound scan, the position of the fetus is determined, and then with a special thin needle, piercing the mother’s belly and the wall of the uterus, inject into the umbilical cord.
“There is no anesthesia during the transfusion. You are awake under the supervision of doctors, ”says Natalya.
Often, intrauterine transfusion alone is not enough: donor erythrocytes do not live long and soon the hemoglobin level drops again.
“The most important thing is that I trusted the doctors of the maternity hospital 100%, I have never seen such professionals anywhere else,” says Natalya. – The transfusion was carried out by the head physician of the maternity hospital Anton Mikhailov, head of the polyclinic department Tatyana Kashtanova, obstetrician-gynecologist Inna Kyanksep and midwife Yana Chugunova. From the very beginning I knew that everything would be fine! “