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Meet Jaidyn

Jaidyn Lee Schuld was born by emergency C-Section, performed by DR.S.Baydock, on August 5th 2006. As I was recovering in my room with my baby beside me in her little "push crib", I started getting worried that she was not eating. 24 hours passed, she still was not eating, but she seemed to be otherwise OK.

It was about 36 hours after her birth I felt something was wrong. My nurse took her to the NICU to get checked out. She brought my baby back about 4 hours later, and said that her "VITALS" were normal. About 4 hours after that I asked the nurse to take her again to the NICU. This time they found something wrong. My nurse came to me and told me that they were admitting her, and that a pediatrician would come and talk to me to let me know what was going on. Hours had passed; I then started to get very upset, that I didn’t know what was going on. Dr. Harilal then came to me and said that she couldn't pinpoint the problem, but would put Jaidyn on antibiotics.

When I went to the NICU for the first time to see my little girl, I was so overwhelmed. She was hooked up to tubes and monitors, and had an IV in her little foot. I cried right there; couldn't hold back my emotions at all. A nurse came to me then, and tried to comfort me. The nurse told me about the tests that the Doctors were doing and that I would find out soon what was wrong with Jaidyn. I was still a patient myself, so going back and forth from maternity to NICU was easy. My husband and I finally found out what Jaidyn was sick from on the third day that she was in NICU. A nasty staph infection was the diagnosis. Jaidyn was to stay in the unit and on antibiotics for a complete week,. I in turn got an infection in my incision from my cesarean surgery, and was suffering from high blood pressure. I couldn’t go to my baby every two hours to breast feed. I had to express my milk, and the nurses took over feeding her. My husband would help too when he came to visit.

The nurses at NICU are wonderful, caring and seem to be resilient. I have nothing but absolute respect for these ladies. What a job they have, I will never ever forget going in to the NICU to visit my baby girl, and all the babies (except mine) were crying and the unit was full, and the nurses were short on monitors and IV poles, I could tell it was going to be a rough night for them, but they kept their " cool" all the time. Thank-you again for being there for my family, it was such a bitter-sweet time in my life, but we got through it and Jaidyn is now a thriving four month old!

- As told by Mrs. Coral Schuld

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