New parents, Sarah and Aaron Curtis are starting life as a family of four after being discharged from The West Cumberland Hospital with their premature twins, Kenna and Lissa. Sarah described how things didn’t quite go to plan when she was admitted ten weeks early to the maternity unit at WCH. If that wasn’t worrying enough for the expectant Mum, she was told she had tested positive for Corona virus upon admission. Sarah said “"I was so upset when my positive test came back. Obviously, I had read that if a pregnant woman were to get it, it could have passed through the placenta and affect the babies”.
Once the babies were safely delivered by staff at WCH the babies also tested positive for the virus meaning 14 day quarantine for the pair and close monitoring by hospital staff on the Special Care Baby Unit.
The twins dad Aaron described the anxious wait to meet his new babies, “They were born on Friday the 3rd of July and it wasn't until the following Saturday that I got to meet and hold them, it was definitely worth the wait”.
The couple had nothing but praise for the staff at WCH explaining how staff at the hospital helped them after they struggled with losing baby daughter Lottie to cot death a few years ago. “The staff on the delivery suite and on SCBU at the West Cumberland were fantastic they helped me. I was so scared to bring them home after losing Lottie. It's still scary as they are not past that age where you stop worrying, but the team on SCBU helped me and showed me that there is happiness after."
Congratulations to the Curtis family and well done to the teams involved in their care at WCH.
New parents, Sarah and Aaron Curtis are starting life as a family of four after being discharged from The West Cumberland Hospital with their premature twins, Kenna and Lissa. Sarah described how things didn’t quite go to plan when she was admitted ten weeks early to the maternity unit at WCH. If that wasn’t worrying enough for the expectant Mum, she was told she had tested positive for Corona virus upon admission. Sarah said “"I was so upset when my positive test came back. Obviously, I had read that if a pregnant woman were to get it, it could have passed through the placenta and affect the babies”.
Once the babies were safely delivered by staff at WCH the babies also tested positive for the virus meaning 14 day quarantine for the pair and close monitoring by hospital staff on the Special Care Baby Unit.
The twins dad Aaron described the anxious wait to meet his new babies, “They were born on Friday the 3rd of July and it wasn't until the following Saturday that I got to meet and hold them, it was definitely worth the wait”.
The couple had nothing but praise for the staff at WCH explaining how staff at the hospital helped them after they struggled with losing baby daughter Lottie to cot death a few years ago. “The staff on the delivery suite and on SCBU at the West Cumberland were fantastic they helped me. I was so scared to bring them home after losing Lottie. It's still scary as they are not past that age where you stop worrying, but the team on SCBU helped me and showed me that there is happiness after."
Congratulations to the Curtis family and well done to the teams involved in their care at WCH.