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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure whether this is the right forum for this question - apologies if it isn't.

My daughter was born two days ago with the cord wrapped tightly around her neck. She didn't have oxygen for some unknown amount of time and once they got her heart rate up and her breathing going they decided to use this hypothermia/cooling therapy that has shown success in reducing the long term effects of oxygen deprivation (I think neonatal encephalopathy is the official term for it? they said hers was "moderate" I think, and moderate to severe is where you use the cooling approach).

Anyway, I'd like to hear about the experiences of others to get a sense of what's ahead (good and bad). They did an EEG yesterday and said everything looked normal, but then last night she started having seizures that weren't being picked up on the EEG. Everyone seemed confused by that. They are doing an MRI in a week or so. The doctors are great at answering questions but you know there are those questions where the answer is just "every case is different." I'm kind of lost in the wilderness here and am looking for some different stories to give me a sense of the range I'm facing.

TIA.[/quote]

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