Paul Aitken

hi my name is paul aitken
i'm staying down in loch lomond at the moment just until my fiancee and i can get a house from the housing...
my son Paul john aitken was born on the 18th nov 08 at 01.55am - 25+5 days (born 15 wks early) by emergency caesarean due to cord prolapse, BREECH as that was immediate threat to rosemarie or baby paul his weight was 930grams (2lb's & 1 oz's) and breathing on his own, he was took up to NEONATAL UNIT and was stable in ICU,
the wee man had a blood tranfusion and was comfortable.. the next few days he caught a chest infection, he was forgettin to breath so he was put on the ventilater so he could have a rest while the infection was gettin treated.. the next few days he was back off the ventilater and breathing on his own and he was a wee rascal as his oxygen levels were up and down due to him keeping his mouth opened, then the next few days he was back on the ventilater due to him catching another infection but he was tryin to fight the ventilater by tryin to breath while being ventilated so they had to sedate him, then on the 9th dec 08 we got a phone call at 08.50am and was told baby paul wasn't feeling too well could we come up... once we were at the hosp baby paul was a funny colour and his tummy was all bloated out, he get an x-ray and when they changed his nappy their was blood in it, we were told that he had NECROTISING ENTEROCOLITIS known as NEC + PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOUS (a heart defect) he only had 20% chance of surviving this as its a miracle if they do, but he fought long and hard as the nurses & docs
weren't expecting him to last as long as he did..the poor wee guy had blood coming up out of his mouth which was frightening for me and paul, he was critically ill the next few days so i decided to stay overnight with him on sunday the 14th dec 08 then mummy got a phone call on the monday at 06.41am to come up as baby paul was very poorly, mummy got to the hosp at 07.10 but baby paul had already past away at 7 am, the doc took all the tubes & needles out and we got to hold him for the first time, baby paul gave up his fight as NEC just got too much for him and we're so proud of him but he's in no more pain now...forget to mention when baby paul past away we got asked if we wanted a post morton on him just to see how bad NEC had infected his wee body and to check if their was anything else but we said no as we'd thought he'd been thru enough just let him rest now...