Just over a year ago, a little boy called Jasper Benedict was born at 7:30 pm on 12 December 2020 at 40 weeks and four days. Three hours after his birth, he suffered a Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse (SUPC). This meant that he went from being a happy, feeding new-born to lifeless, floppy, and blue in a matter of seconds. We have been told it was likely due to an 'infection' – but we may never know exactly why.
Following three rounds of CPR and haemorrhaging on the lungs, 48 minutes later, the medical team managed to stabilise Jasper and take him down to NICU. It was a mixture of pure luck - being at the exact spot we were in at the right time (we'd been brought into the hospital as a precaution for a post-natal mother issue and on a ward that by chance had two registrars on duty on a Saturday night) and having an amazing neonatal and midwifery team. They are why Jasper is alive now.
