23 week babies: the price of life

[almeria]

bbc2 tonight at 9pm

i'm guessing it's a programme about prem babies and all the difficulties they have, and if they can survive so early.

might be interesting, might be upsetting :-/

 

[hopefulmummy]

I'm planning on watching....it will be really moving I think. And food for thought.

 

[nmf1987]

they were talking about it on this morning yesterday and whether or not you would want to try and help them survive when born so early. it's a tough one i think. couldn't remember when it was on will have to iplayer it now. xxx

 

[tinytoes]

Had to turn it off already , I'm sat here sobbing

 

[nmf1987]

oh no. maybe i shouldnt watch it then. xxx

 

[hello]

Oh my word I am already crying I want to turn it off but I can't I wouldn't watch this if I was pregnant!!

 

[Tracey M]

Omg....sobbing my heart out already but I Cant switch off.....deep breath....

 

[tinytoes]

Nope defo not for the sensitive pregnant lady

 

[hello]

Can't believe babies can be aborted at this age that baby looked perfectly formed

 

[Tracey M]

My thoughts exactly! That was what had me sobbing...

 

[cosmicgirl]

The pain those poor little ones go through, so sad xx

 

[Annie050408]

Having had a prem baby (although a 36 weeker) this is heartbreaking - having a baby in neonatal is traumatic as it let alone born that prem.

 

[Nurse 26]

Oh, my heart was breaking watching this programme, so so sad

 

[sophie666]

Great I am now feeling poo Life is such a small beautifull thing. Makes me glad my little one was only 3 days early and cross my heart his little bro or siss is the same.

 

[nadine]

i watched this and to be honest it disturbed me........................i wasnt upset crying,

it just made me mad at the suffereing of those lil babys, and made me question what i would do in that position, and to be honest i couldnt sit back for weeks on end and let my little baby suffer, with only a very very small chance of survival - and at best have a life- but them being disabled or brain damaged, i think at such an early stage (23w) that burden shouldnt be left up to the parents, it moved me when that 18 year old who was born at 23 weeks was on sayin she didnt no the purpose of being alive and that in her eyes she had the help on the nhs to survive up to 18 but then nothing and now she was scared , scared about when her parents are no longer there to help her as she heavily depends on them, it was just so sad..............

but plz ladies this is only my opinion i no alot of people will strongly disagree.

very much and eye opener

 

[Tracey M]

I agree Nadine - I think 24 weeks is a different story completely - just that 23 week mark just seems to soon for me. I dont think I would risk and let nature take its course. They say that the more weeks the baby can survive in the womb the better so I'm gonna hope and pray I make it to at least 26 weeks (no reason to think I will be early but it happens all the time). It was sad seeing the babies die but what got me breaking my heart was the very beginning when they said at 23 weeks people can still abort - surely that cant be right? Oh sorry being contraversial now I'm sure if someone had a 20 wek scan and were advised pregnancy not viable that would be a totally different matter but just....no I should not go on about this people have reasons....

Anyway - I ended up having nightmares last night about having 3 prem babies - it was truly awful I tossed and turned in my sleep for hours and the images just all over my mind. "hello" you are right - maybe should not have watched it being a pregnant lady, but then again I know know how I feel if I have a problem at 23 weeks....

 

[xshauna_bazx]

I watched it was awful!!! I was nearly booing all fully formed...poor little things. I don't think you really know what you would do in that situation unless you were actually in it...nearly had me going seeing there little chests moving xxx

 

[nadine]

your right hunni, 23 weeks is defo to early for me id defo let nature take its course, im a strong believer in what will be will be,

as for the abortion thing again i tend not to really get involved init, in my job you see so many young drug addicted unstable people having babys and then them children not having any care or quility of life its heart breaking, i sort of distance my self from thinking its an actual baby in them cases if that makes any sence an some times think it would be better if the children were not born in to that enviroment!

i strongly diss agree with people just using abortin as a form of conticeptive an think in them cases they should only have adoption as an option at say 20 weeks plus............but hey as you said its such a wide open thing you could go on for ever, its one of those,

aww and bless you, having night meres i dont get effected by things like that so i was ok but i feel for you hun, it wasnt particulally nice for us preggers ladies x x x

 

[snr1982]

They may look perfectly formed but they aren't otherwise the survival rate would be a lot better than it is. I personally couldn't put a baby through that much suffering and pain it's just not fair on them. It would be the worse thing a person would ever have to go through and I can understand why some people want to do everything possible esp. if they had been trying for so long to have a baby etc. but I just think nature should be allowed to take its course.

 

[nadine]

They may look perfectly formed but they aren't otherwise the survival rate would be a lot better than it is. I personally couldn't put a baby through that much suffering and pain it's just not fair on them. It would be the worse thing a person would ever have to go through and I can understand why some people want to do everything possible esp. if they had been trying for so long to have a baby etc. but I just think nature should be allowed to take its course.

100% agree, x x