Hospital Choice, Lacking ECMO

Last week, after our weekly appointment we talked to our OB (Associate Professor) and Chairperson Professor in a short time. Chairperson said that they may want to induce labor after 35th week. This was really frightened for us, because we have read a lot of writings from internet, and heard from another experienced doctor who is working at another big hospital that preterm labor shouldn’t be preferred in these type of deficiency. Baskent Hospital is good and well-cared place and we have gone there for about three years. Doctors know us. But the hospital hasn’t so much experience on CDH babies. We learned that they had 13 CDH babies for the last 2,5 years. Six of them survived. We went to other big hospital in Ankara. It was Hacettepe University Hospital. They have 1 or 2 patient in every month from Turkey’s different regions. But there are very crowded as a public hospital and we don’t want to go for a serious condition like that. We met pediatric surgeon in Baskent Hospital. He said that after surgery is more important than surgery. Its NICU and caring conditions seems more comfortable. We decide there for surgery if it will be possible. When we learned that there is no ECMO in our country, we were disappointed and very depressed. Maybe, this means “going to football match with missed staff”. We pray for that our baby won’t need ECMO.

Tomorrow or maybe Wednesday morning, doctors in hospital will be in a ordinary meeting and as we learned from our OB, they (our docs and surgeons) will talk about our condition.

Aytekin and Emel.