Logan James Campbell

This page is set up in remembreance of my little boy called Logan James Campbell.

About Logan

I found out i was pregnant on the 6th December 2006 i was excited that i was going to be a mum and
that my partner david was going to be a dad.

we were both only 17 turning 18 in 2 months at the time but we had been going out with each other
since we were 15 and were engaged.

I went for my first scan at 15 weeks on the 1st of february 2007 and left the clinic with being told
everything was fine and baby is well i was getting even more excited for my little bundle of joy.

I was getting very bad sickness basicly could not keep anything down so i went to the doctor and
explained and he told me it was just my reflux due to pregnancy just make sure you keep drnking
waer.

I went for my second scan at Ayrshire maternity unit at crosshouse. During the scan the scanographer
had this expression on her face that basicly said it all she told me and david that she had to go
and get an condsultant as she cant find everything that should be there. Dr Dobbie came and scaned
me and told me that there is not very good news so we got taken to a side room. He told us that your
little boy has a diaphamatic hernia and he dose not know how serious it is untill I refer you to
Queen mothers hospital for the professionals to scan me.

so i went home in a daze and i got a phone call from Dr Dobbie to tell me that i had an appointment
on moday morning at 9.30 am at the fetal medicine department.

On the monday morning me and david went along to Queen mothers hospital with david mum i got scaned
twice with two diffrent people and got taken in to a side room again. They said that your baby has a
condition called a congential diaphragmatic hernia and that he has an 80% chance of survival but
they also told me that his left side of his heart very small and if it was the case he would only
have a 50% chance of survival. I was to come along next week for another scan to check his heart as
i was only 21 weeks pregnant it was hard to tell. They keept offering me an abortion and I keept
saying no.

Why would i want to get an abortion on the baby that i loved i would have to have given birth to him
anyway and i wanted to give my baby every chance that he could get.

I went home again and told our familyies and they keept saying it would be alright which i was
trying to tell my self he will be alright.

But i went back to Queen mothers hospital and they said wat i was not wanting to hear that he had
the heart problem as well. I had to go to Queen mothers hospital every month for scans and one week
i was 6 months pregnant and the Dr said that Logans chances had dropped to 30% survival his
intestines had all went up through the gap and pushed his heart over and squashed his lungs i got
steriod injection for his lungs to mature.

On monday the 16th july 2007 i went into hospital to get Started to have him on tuesday which
happended but during the nite logan got distressed and i had to have an emergency c- section at
04:18 am on the 17th July logan was born i never heard a cry or anything the doctors all rushed
around him it was very scary then they asked david to name him and they quickly let me have a look
in the incubater then he got taken to the special care unit.

At 6 oclock logan doctor came to see me and told me that he was doing well and that david could go
home and get some sleep as he was there from monday morning at 10 in the morning so david went home
and at 10 0clock logan doctor came to see me again and said that logan was deteriating and to get
the family up as soon as possiable she asked me if i wanted to go up and see him but i wanted to
wait till david came as i didnt want to be the only person to see him alive if he didnt make it in
time for david to come but he did. i got him christend in the hospital and had a few hours with him
alive.

At 5.30 logan was brought through to me and he died in my arms i could not speak my mum and dad went
home with david mum and dad and me and david bathed logan and changed him took pictures with him and
footprints and handprints i could hardly cry my body was in shock

i got to go home the next day as i was not that sore we went over to the parlour to say our goodbyes
to logan and when i went home i had to arrange his fruneral.