Quadruplets Overcome Fight Against Life-Threatening Illnesses After 30 Days in ICU

Hyderabad:

A quadruplets’ mother who was in shock over her babies being premature and having low birth weight was brought to Hyderabad’s Niloufer Hospital. She and her babies spent a month in the intensive care unit there before they got a happy ending.

It is said that the treatment would have cost more than Rs 1 crore in any private hospital.

Amrutha, 24, was admitted to the hospital on February 22 with symptoms of premature labour pain in the seventh month of her pregnancy.

She was admitted for caesarean delivery the same day. She delivered four babies – two boys and two girls.

All four of them highly premature and low weight at birth needed ventilator assistance in the first minutes after delivery, the hospital stated. The babies have been admitted to the Niloufer Hospital ICU under Dr N Ravi Kumar, superintendent, and L Swapna, head of department of neonatology and professor.

The infants were ventilated mechanically for 10 days because of respiratory issues. During the early days, it was challenging for the mother to supply breast-feeding to all the infants.

With the assistance of a human milk bank in Niloufer Hospital, she was able to feed her infants with her own milk and some donor human milk.

With each passing day, the health of the babies improved and were transferred to general wards from the ICU. They also had to fight with a number of complications related to prematurity such as sepsis, jaundice, apnea and ROP.

One baby needed an eye surgery also, for which doctors from Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital extended their assistance.

All the four babies were finally discharged today after 35 days in the hospital, hale and hearty.

Dr N Ravi Kumar commended the doctors of the neonatology department for their work. The mother and the four babies are all well, with the babies having breast milk only.