It's World Prematurity Day and Roisin has opened up about the difficult experience of giving birth to her premature son Brodie at 33 weeks: 'It's a very surreal feeling driving away from a hospital that your baby is sitting in'
County Tyrone mum Róisín Doherty has opened up about the struggle of welcoming her child prematurely.
Read more:Dublin woman diagnosed with COPD says lung disease won't stop her living life to the fullestSpeaking to RSVP Live, Roisin said: "There were very serious problems with my pregnancy from very early on. I was actually originally taken in at 27 weeks to have Brodie, and the survival rate statistics at that age aren't ideal. I was gowned up ready to go in for an emergency section because things were looking really bad.
"There's no skin to skin or holding them or anything like that," said Roisin. "After he was born, I actually took really unwell too. I remember I was crying hysterically and my partner Nick wasn't with me because he had gone along with Brodie to the neonatal unit. "All night long I could hear hear new mummies and all of these babies crying and I was sitting in this ward with no baby," she recalled.
She praised the nursing staff for their regular updates on how he was doing and photos of him, but because things can be so touch and go with premature newborns, they couldn't give her any indication of when the family could take him home. Roisin recalled how hard it was to be discharged from the hospital and go home, leaving her son behind.
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