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Photo rights Tracy Maguire A premature baby named Peyton Maguire tested positive for the coronavirus and became the youngest patient in the UK to be exposed to the virus.
The mother, Tracy Maguire, still remembers when the doctor inserted a swab into her three-week-old baby’s nose to test for the corona virus.
Tracy said the moment was one of the “worst things” she had ever seen.
“This is the first time I’ve seen my baby cry like this,” he said. “I hugged her, cried and we tried to strengthen each other.”
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Born prematurely, weighing only 1.5 kg, the Peyton baby was diagnosed with coronavirus at the age of three weeks.
Peyton’s baby was born on March 26, eight weeks before the estimated birth, out of his family’s plans.
Despite feeling good, Tracy was told she could experience pre-eclampsia during a routine checkup and was immediately rushed to Wishaw General Hospital in Lanarkshire.
Okay, but he’s exposed to the corona virus.
In the first few weeks, as Peyton enjoyed bathing, he began to show mild, almost undetectable symptoms, such as cough and wheezing.
During the morning with Kaye Adams on BBC Radio Scotland, Tracy said she was traumatized to learn that her baby was one of the youngest patients exposed to the coronavirus in the country.
They say, “Okay, don’t panic, but after testing it it turns out to be positive for the corona virus,” Tracy said.
“I thought the doctor had tried to keep me calm, but he was crying.
“Okay though, but since when was he infected with a virus? How did he deal with it when he was still so weak?”
Peyton received steroids to help strengthen his lungs and was treated “remarkably” by nurses who managed the delivery in the days following the diagnosis of exposure to the virus.
However, after recovering from a C-section, Tracy was told that she had to go home and isolate herself for 14 days away from her baby.
“I called the doctor and begged him not to stay away from the baby.
“Like everyone who cares for him, I am his mother. Even if it is a common cold, I still want to be there with him.”
Eventually, the doctor relented and allowed Tracy to accompany her baby, but her husband, Adrian, had to go home and complete his career in order to see Peyton.
As the days passed, the number of deaths in Scotland caused by the virus continued to rise, but Peyton recovered.
Tracy and her baby were released from the hospital on Monday (4/20) and now the father can take him for the first time since he left the hospital.
“From Adrian’s point of view, he feels useless: first his baby is born prematurely and then his wife is not well and cannot be there.”
Trust the nurses
Now, after returning home and following a routine, Tracy and her family praise the Wishaw General doctors and nurses who guide them through extraordinary and worrying deliveries.
“They are doing a job that is not real: in their personal protective equipment they hug my baby and risk their lives to make sure my baby gets enough food.”
“This is incredible, you will never understand how grateful I am. Peyton is the most valuable thing in the world and I trust that he will be looked after.”
“For concerned mothers, trust your trust in these nurses.
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