A premature baby whose heart stopped beating for 17 minutes has beaten the odds to come home - after more than three months in hospital.<br /><br />Bethany Homar, 28, was told there was a high chance her little boy wouldn’t make it when she was rushed for an emergency c-section at 26 weeks and three days.<br /><br />She had suffered a placental abruption - where the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus before birth - which can be fatal for the baby.<br /><br />Little Isaiah Gordon was born weighing 1lbs 10z on April 7th this year at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.<br /><br />He had to be resuscitated for 17 minutes before he started breathing and was rushed to the neonatal ward.<br /><br />Doctors still didn’t think Isaiah would survive and underwent multiple blood transfusions to keep him alive.<br /><br />Miraculously, brain scans showed just two little bleeds and no sign of brain damage, and after 112 days in hospital the youngster was able to come home on oxygen.<br /><br />Bethany, a stay-at-home mum, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, said: “I was given two choices.<br /><br />"Let him die inside me while they stopped my bleeding or have him there and then with a high chance that he wouldn’t make it.<br /><br />“When they told me they had resuscitated him for 17 minutes I couldn’t believe it.<br /><br />“They were about to give up and he pulled through.<br /><br />“He was very sick and needed lots of transfusions, but he battled on. I can’t believe he is now home and OK.<br /><br />“He’s a miracle.”<br /><br />Bethany found out she was expecting her fourth child, and first with her partner, Reuben Gordon, 28, a warehouse packer, in December 2021.<br /><br />"We were really excited as I already had three children and two were under two," she said.<br /><br />Bethany had a smooth pregnancy until she started getting cramps at 26 weeks and noticed blood in her bath.<br /><br />"My cramps were just like period pains, so I didn't think much of it," she said.<br /><br />"I just thought I'd have a bath to help with the aches but then I noticed blood and started to panic.<br /><br />"I don't think it completely set in how serious everything was until I rang the hospital."<br /><br />After calling the doctor she was rushed into hospital, where they realised she was suffering with placental abruption.<br /><br />Bethany was given two options - doctors could stop the bleeding and let her baby pass away inside her or risk a c-section which didn’t have good odds for his survival.<br /><br />"I broke down crying when they told me my choices," she said.<br /><br />"I knew I couldn't just let him pass away without trying.<br /><br />“I had to give him a chance."<br /><br />So, Bethany was whisked down for an emergency c-section and put under for the birth.<br /><br />She said: “I didn’t know what had happened when I came round. Then they told me he was very sick, and they were not sure if he would survive.<br /><br />“He wasn’t born breathing and doctors told me they resuscitated him for 17 minutes and if it had been a few more minutes they would have had to stop.<br /><br />“He pulled through at the last second.”
