Pictures from Day One

As promised, here are pictures from Day One.

This is moments after Pippa was born.  We are still in the delivery theatre.  At this stage there are two neonatologists working on Pippa and the first thing they did was insert a ventilation tube to assist her breathing.

After tubing Pippa they moved her to the room adjacent to the delivery theatre and transferred her to the transport trolley.  Another neonatologist and a NICU nurse, both from the children’s hospital, joined the team and stabilised Pippa for the trip to intensive care.  Various lines and monitors were attached and inserted.

Still preparing for the move, Pippa’s colouring was turning more purple. 

This is Pippa leaving the delivery suite at Westmead Public Hospital en route to the Grace Ward for Neonatal Intensive Care at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.  Her hands and feet were quite blue.

The trip between hospitals is about 500 metres or so via internal corridors and elevators.

This is Pippa being taken from the NICU to surgery.  She didn’t spend long in NICU because the doctors decided they had to operate immediately.

This was our first look at Pippa after surgery.  Erin had only seen Pippa for a couple of seconds after she was born and this was our first chance to touch her.  You don't really understand 'intensive care' until you see it up close.