interesting babies

kids · Mar 11, 2003

Originally posted by NurseShell
I saw a couple color photos of babies that died shortly after birth with the defects mentioned above...I cried. Seriously, how frequently do these kinds of things happen??

I really don't know, I think I just read that the incidence of harlequins is like 1 in 300,000.

With all of the possible things that can go wrong its almost amazing that there are any *normal* babis born. Like I said in an earlier post...with all of the things that could go wrong it makes me pretty grateful for a "simple" heart defect.

Heather333 · Mar 12, 2003

I've only been in NICU a little under a year and the most interesting one I have seen was Moebius Sydrome. Kid ended up with a G-tube and a trach. A really sad case.

Heather

HazelLPN, LPN · Apr 4, 2003

Years ago I took care of a baby with an ectopic heart. About a quarter of the heart was exposed outside the chest wall and had several other anomalies. The condition was inoperable at the time and we made her as comfortable as possible.I have many experiences in my long career but I have never watched a beating heart stop like that.

PediRN · Apr 4, 2003

Bartsocas Papas syndrome....fused TMJ, popliteal webbing, missing fingers, cleft lip and palate.

Maybe I've been in this business too long, but he's one of the cutest kids ever.

His parents were first cousins and actually had another baby after him that died in utero with the same syndrome.

kids · Apr 5, 2003

Originally posted by PediRN
Bartsocas Papas syndrome....fused TMJ, popliteal webbing, missing fingers, cleft lip and palate.

Maybe I've been in this business too long, but he's one of the cutest kids ever.

His parents were first cousins and actually had another baby after him that died in utero with the same syndrome.

Amazing this baby lived to delivery, is a lethal disorder.

http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?263650

dawngloves, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2003

Bartsocas Papas syndrome....

I had a kid like with that! I didn't know it had a name! He had cardiac problems on top of it all. What a train wreck. We transfered him out in record time!

babynurselsa, RN · Apr 6, 2003

I always thought that the Smith's bokk just sheds a whole new light on a trip to Walmart...:)

We had a baby one time that had a sydrome, I think it was moon face baby, can't remeber the technical name. Basically the skull calcifies, the eyes were out of the sockets, and the brain tissue was in the cheeks. from the chin down she was perfect. Lived about 2 weeks, was absolutely devastating to see.

neonatalRN · Jul 21, 2003

My son had Osteogenesis Imperfecta. He had 8 fractures at birth. Did the baby you had with OI live? I think it was Kristi that said there was an OI in her NICU? 53 fractures, wow. Sounds like it was Type II, the lethal type. My son had Type III, not the lethal type, but he did die, at 5 weeks old, still in the NICU. Separate thread about that.

Heidi

CVnurse08 · Jul 21, 2003

Don't have anything to add. Just wanted to say that this is very very sad but interesting thread. Thanks !!

NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN · Jul 22, 2003

As far as I know, the baby didn't die, but it's possible that something happened and we just didn't hear about it. Unfortunately, once they leave the unit we really lose track of them. It was a very sad case- that was a beautiful baby, but she was very physically deformed (sort of knarled) because of all the fractures, and I imagine it was very painful for her.

I'm very sorry to hear about your son. (((((((hugging you)))))))

mother/babyRN, RN · Jul 22, 2003

In OB these days with ultrasounds, we don't routinely see as much as we used to that we don't expect, however , not too long ago we were all shocked when our perfectly normal labor and delivery turned into a case of ambiguous gender. Mother had been with us awhile in pre term labor and was finally ready...After the birth, she held and comforted the child, and the dad wouldn't have anything to do with him/her ( later, genetic studies determined the infant was a male).....

RN from OZ · Jul 22, 2003

I work in a level 3 surgical NICU and I could not begin to list every thing I have seen...trisomy 18, cruduchat, foetal alcohol symdrome, transposition of great arteries, the amniotic bands...sad. the most memorable was a boy who's parents were cousins and he was born with his whole stomach and bowel on the out side it had to be wrapped in saline gauze and hung up to slowly go back in before surgery...it took days..the suffering we see due to intermarriage and drug abuse is criminal. And it is hard on the other parents with their 23weekers after 12 years on IVF.