Miracle mum Amy shares Jetsen's story:

I began to notice Braxton hicks contractions around 23 weeks of my pregnancy and thought everything was normal. I had fortnightly checkups from the beginning of my second trimester due to having a high risk pregnancy due to my own medical heart condition. Around 25 weeks gestation I found the pain had started worsening, i had rung the hospital and they had said to monitor at home as we had an ultrasound the next day, my appointment came and I was told at the end of it that my cervix had started to shorten prior my last scan, I was put on Medication to try and prevent it from shortening any more and was told to come back the next week for a follow-up ultrasound. The following week came, I was 26 weeks gestation, my ultrasound showed that my cervix shortened from 12mm to now 5mm, I was immediately sent to the birthing suite, I was put on monitors straight away where they discovered I had actually been having contractions the whole four weeks prior to admission and I was now considered being in Preterm labour. I spent the following week with constant monitoring, scans, speculums, steroid shots, magnesium drips ect. We spent a whole week doing everything we could to prevent my little boy from coming but unfortunately my body had other plans. The pain was getting worse and worse and my body started loosing fluid, we were forced to get prepared that our little boy would be earthside any day now. On the 30th of November my contractions started to get unbearable, my partner went out to get the Doctor.
The Doctor checked my cervix and noticed straight away my baby was coming but he was now in a breech position, I was sent through for a emergency c-section where my beautiful baby boy was born on December 1st at 1:16am.
Unfortunately while experiencing difficulty’s myself during the c-section I was sent straight to ICU where I spent the next day before i was wheeled down to meet him, oxygen strapped to the chair beside me.
Only getting to touch him through the tiny window in the box he was fighting so hard inside of. The first time I held my baby was 8 days after he was born, it was the most beautiful but heartbreaking thing I’ve ever experienced, I was in shock, I was holding a baby that didn’t feel like mine. He was so tiny, so fragile, no where near ready for this world. I was so scared to hold my own baby, something that was meant to be so beautiful and special, turned into something that terrified me. I spend 2 weeks in hospital recovering before we had to leave the hospital without him, something no parent is ever prepared for or should ever have to go through. Our sweet little miracle spent 125 days including his first Christmas In the NICU & SCN and during that time he was diagnosed with Chronic lung disease, he endured Sepsis Five times, Three blood transfusions, Five times under blue light therapy, Ten Cannulations, Two central line insertions, countless blood tests, injections, Ultrasounds, cardio Echos, X-rays, 109 days with a NG tube. He spent 77 days on CPAP,
22 days on High flow Oxygen, 26 days on Low flow Oxygen and is now on home Oxygen and is expected to continue for the next two years.
Jetsen is now a happy, thriving little boy and just turned 7 months old.
Our little fighter that bet all odds and never gave up!