What do you NICU nurses think about this?

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I am a new grad peds nurse and I ran into this story. While is sounds nothing short of miraculous I am a little skeptical in believing that the events happened that way and a baby without Oxygen resource started spontaneously breathing without brain damage, more specifically CP. Two hours without breathing?!?!?! Just curious what you guys think about it. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled for the mom and I think it's wonderful that she has a healthy seaming baby.

Specializes in NICU.

Here's what I want to know-

Did they resuscitate the baby? Try to intubate? Give epi? What exactly happened?

A plausible explanation might be that they assumed the kid was still born and handed over to Mom to hold when he wasn't, but...why wouldn't you resuscitate a 27 weeker? Were there large anomalies? Too many missing facts...

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