Parents' joy at Huw's milestone
A baby boy born prematurely with a catalogue of health problems is looking forward to his first birthday – despite doctors fearing he wouldn't survive beyond 24 hours. A baby boy born prematurely with a catalogue of health problems is looking forward to his first birthday – despite doctors fearing he wouldn't survive beyond 24 hours. Huw Weston was born three months premature, with a collapsed lung and heart problems. But against the odds the youngster has been back at home with parents Nick and Joanne, of Apley Road, Wollaston, for the last few months and will celebrate his first birthday tomorrow. His mother said: "My pregnancy was going along fine until I got stomach pains one day. "I was taken to hospital and Huw was born three months premature. It was a complete shock which my body wasn't prepared for and Huw was born with a collapsed lung and had to be resucitated in front of us. "At the neonatal unit at Russells Hall they said he was so ill they did not know whether he was going to survive. He wasn't allowed out of the incubator and we could not even hold him because he was so fragile." Read the full story in the Express & Star.
Huw Weston was born three months premature, with a collapsed lung and heart problems.
But against the odds the youngster has been back at home with parents Nick and Joanne, of Apley Road, Wollaston, for the last few months and will celebrate his first birthday tomorrow.
His mother said: "My pregnancy was going along fine until I got stomach pains one day. "I was taken to hospital and Huw was born three months premature. It was a complete shock which my body wasn't prepared for and Huw was born with a collapsed lung and had to be resucitated in front of us.
"At the neonatal unit at Russells Hall they said he was so ill they did not know whether he was going to survive. He wasn't allowed out of the incubator and we could not even hold him because he was so fragile.
"He spent five months in the neonatal unit and had a heart operation at two months old at Birmingham's Childrens Hospital. He was on ventiliation as he couldn't breathe on his own, he also had a brain haemorrhage and a number of blood transfusions. It was really touch and go for months but he is a fighter."
Huw was eventually allowed home in January but still had to stay hooked up to oxygen and a feeding pump. He has suffered a couple of lapses where his parents have had to take him back to the hospital's intensive care unit.
But now Huw is enjoying his longest run yet out of hospital. His parents are charting Huw's story at www.babiesonline.com/babies/h/huw
