BABIES BORN WITH NO BLOOD

IT IS SO RARE, THAT ONLY 2 BABIES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO SURVIVE!



OLIVIA NORTON

Oliva, (born in 2012 in the UK) now 2 years, was born completely white because she had such a low count of haemoglobin - the chemical which carries oxygen in red blood cells - that it could not officially be classed as 'blood'.

She was given less than two hours to live but survived thanks to emergency transfusions which transformed her into a glowing healthy pink colour.

Mother Louise Bearman, 31, a barrister's clerk, told of her shock at giving birth to a "ghost white" baby whose condition was so rare she will now feature in medical textbooks.

She said: "Olivia was my first baby, so I didn't really know what to expect - but I certainly didn't think she'd be that colour.

"I'll never forget what the doctors notes said - 'white and floppy'.

HOPE JUAREZ

Three weeks before Jennifer Juarez’s baby was due, she felt the tiny girl stop kicking. Following her intuition, she sought help, and if Juarez had waited just two more hours to go to the hospital, her baby might not be alive today.

Hope, now a healthy 6-week-old, was a “ghost baby” born without the majority of her blood.

“She asked me, ‘Well what’s your gut feeling?’” Juarez recalled her midwife saying, “And I said, ‘I don't know. I just feel like something’s off. Something’s not right.’”

The California mother-to-be was scheduled for an emergency C-section. When Hope entered the world she was crying, but she was white — ghost white. Doctors trying to draw blood could barely get anything. It was later discovered that about 80 percent of Hope’s blood had drained from her.

“She was pale. She was really white,”

There is no known cause. A lot of it is just it happens spontaneously. Sometimes the cause could be a motor vehicle accident, trauma, or where we have placental rupture, where the placenta suddenly just comes off the uterine wall.

Hope was given a blood transfusion and is doing well, but other reports of this happening to babies shows that it more often than not results in death. Doctors said Juarez had waited just a couple hours longer before going in for a C-section, the outcome for Hope could have been different.