After Brisbane COVID isolation, Melbourne mother finally saw her newborn son

Tears of overwhelming joy flowed down Sarah Haydar Last night, she saw her baby for the first time since her baby was delivered by emergency caesarean section alone nine days ago.

“When I walked in, my heart was pounding, I was so nervous, I started crying,” Sarah specifically asked Children point.

The baby Ilias was only 30 weeks old, which was born on June 1st by an emergency caesarean section, five days after Sarah and her 29-year-old husband Moi flew from Qatar to Brisbane for a two-week period of isolation.

Sarah was forced to undergo surgery on her own as Moy was denied an exemption Although the couple received full COVID-19 vaccination and tested negative for the virus, the Queensland government will still give birth to their first child with his wife.

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Sarah Haidar saw her baby son for the first time after giving birth 9 days ago. Source: Provided to Kidspot

“After being quarantined for 8 days, we finally saw our newborn baby”

Without any support, the doctor trembled and frightened, not even allowing Sarah to glance at her first baby, and then led him to the room in the neonatal intensive care unit.

At 6:30 last night, their isolation hell finally ended. Sarah and Mo hurriedly stayed with their children and spent three precious hours with him.

“The moment I entered, I was crying, tears of happiness. I immediately felt like a mother. I felt that Ilyas also felt that my mother was here,” Sarah gushed, she also experienced contractions again, the nurse said This is because she shed her oxytocin while holding the baby.

“He needed a diaper change when I went in, so I did. I have to clean his face and feel him. His skin is very soft.

“I put him on my chest with a blanket. He just relaxed and slept there for two hours. He was motionless, usually a very active baby.”

Sarah’s heart beats so fast, but she feels extremely calm while holding a baby who is only 30 centimeters long.

She said that their baby boy was too young, and Moe was so frightened that he did not dare to hold him. Instead, he just stroked his hand, but he hoped to hold his son this afternoon.

“He is the most precious thing-this is the most valuable thing ever,” said the 27-year-old mother.

“He has big facial features, big eyes, big hands, big lips, but he is small. He has a lot of hair and is very active… he looks like his father.”

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“I put him on my chest with a blanket. He just relaxed and slept there for two hours.” Source: Provided to Kidspot

“I am worried that my newborn will not recognize my voice after a week-long separation”

The days of being locked up in the hospital isolation room were full of fear and anxiety, because Sarah stared into Ilias’s eyes and might lose contact with her child.

“It’s as if he recognized my voice. His eyes were wide open, and when I was talking to him, he looked up at me,” she explained.

“Even the nurse told me that when he heard my voice, he knew it.

“I repeated to him the same things he said to him when he was inside me—’Honey, my heart, you are the light of my soul’. I call him my little fool, my baby.”

However, she said that if she didn’t hold him, she could only see him through the video call, and the nurses they hadn’t even met told him about his development, then nothing would make up for the nine days.

“No one should experience it, it’s horrible. I lay in bed and thought,’How did this happen to me and why?’.

“They have no reason to take my newborn baby

Sarah was worried that she might suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder due to this ordeal, and they have arranged a consultation to prepare her for the shock that may arise in the coming days and weeks.

Now, as a mother, Sarah cannot understand the behavior of Queensland’s Chief Health Officer, Jeannette Young, who is also a mother.

“I don’t understand how she can be so ruthless. She is both a mother and a grandmother, how would she feel in my position,” she said angrily.

“They have no reason to take my child away. There is no reason not to let me see him.”

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On Thursday night, Sarah Haidar’s husband Moe (pictured leaving the hospital) was so scared to hold their premature baby boy when they first met. Source: Provided to Kidspot

“I can’t wait to get back to my baby”

After three unbelievable hours immersed in Ilias’ sound, smell and touch, it was so hard to leave him last night.

“I don’t want to go out. I didn’t say goodbye, I said,’See you tomorrow morning, my dear’. I didn’t want to leave, but I was exhausted and had to pump a breast,” she explained emotionally.

“After I was discharged from the hospital, I felt I should go back, but my body and spirit were exhausted… I just turned to my husband and cried in his arms. I can’t wait to get back to him in the morning. We morning I woke up at 6 o’clock and went to visit him-I didn’t sleep all night.”

Tomorrow, the doctor will try to remove the machine that helps Ilyas breathe.

Once successful, they hope to be able to send him back to Melbourne, where they will be supported by their family and can recover from the terrible experience.

They have asked the Minister of Health to provide nursing flights because the cost is $30,000, but they have been told they need to inquire about the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

Sarah and Mo also contacted attorneys who are investigating a negligence claim related to the separation of their children.

“This shouldn’t happen to any woman,” Sarah emphasized.

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