Hospital Uses Plastic Bag to Heat Premature Baby

An English hospital used a plastic bag to warm a premature baby.

Pixie-Grant Griffiths was born on May 12 at 28 weeks of gestation and with just under 500 grams, after an emergency caesarean.

According to the Telegraph the premature baby had stopped to develop around 20 weeks – the placenta and umbilical cord were not feed properly. But minutes after birth, the baby started losing weight, going for 450 grams.

The doctors then decided to put a premature baby inside a small plastic bag to keep his body temperature. Experts did not believe she would survive more than an hour, but Pixie won all odds.

Her mother, Sharon Grant 37, remembers that doctors put a little cap on Pixie’s head and put her in a plastic bag, those to store sandwiches, when she was born.

“It must have been what was at the time in the operating room,” adding that she then passed then to a bubble wrap, and was sent to intensive care.

The baby was in an incubator for about three months, during which she had a urinary tract infection and other in the stomach, yet having been subjected to 10 blood transfusions and a lumbar puncture.

Sharon could just hold her daughter 18 days after birth, as each time she hold her, herweight decreased. Only after two months the health of Pixie began to strengthen.

“It was great that she has survived, but it was an extremely traumatic experience,” recalls the English, which only now could take her daughter home, with five months and 3,400 kilos.

“We are constantly going and coming from the hospital since she went home and can not be around other children or sick people. But for now, seems to be well and healthy. “

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