Tradwife influencer Estee Williams reveals 3-month-old daughters on full life support after cardiac arrest
Social media influencer Estee Williams heartbreakingly revealed her newborn daughter went into cardiac arrest and is on “full life support.”Williams, a self-confessed “tradwife,” rushed her 3-month-old infant to the hospital after she stopped breathing and turned blue early Tuesday morning.“My little Estelle went into cardiac arrest in the middle of the night.
Chest compressions were done for 47 minutes and she’s now on full life support (ECMO),” Williams shared on her Instagram Story along with a photo of the tot hooked up to machines in the hospital, according to People.“Please keep my sweet girl in your prayers.This next week is a scary time as we see what her next option will be.”“Baby E,” who was diagnosed with congenital heart defects 14 hours after her birth on Sept.
5, had multiple “dangerous” spikes in her lactate levels within 24 hours before being rushed to the emergency room.Medication was given to the girl to increase her oxygen levels after she began to turn blue, but just after midnight, Williams noticed her baby girl’s breathing changed and she began to turn gray,” according to a GoFundMe update.The infant’s oxygen levels had dropped into the 60s and she didn’t have a pulse.“Baby E” was placed on an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) life-support machine that stabilized her lactate levels from 13 to 3, with the ideal levels being under 2, the girl’s paternal grandmother, Holly Nielsen, wrote on the fundraiser.Nielsen shared a Christmas Eve update revealing her granddaughter’s brain was still functioning normally after the nearly hour-long CPR“Baby Estelle is fighting with everything her tiny body has!!!” she wrote.The baby girl has undergone multiple open-heart surgeries in her short life, the first on Nov.
20 when she was only 11 weeks old.During the surgery, doctors discovered an “extremely large and rare” Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) measuring 30mm.Estelle also has a lower VSD that i...