longest labour ever recorded...............Joanna Krzysztonek spends 75 days in labour lying upside down to save twins

 

Joanna Krzysztonek 

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Dr Mariusz Zimmer 

                                                   

A Polish woman,Joanna Krzysztonek lay upside down in labour for 75 days to save the lives of her two babes after the first of three foetuses growing inside her was born prematurely and died.

Joanna Krzysztonek was pregnant with triplets when she went into labour at 21 weeks. Her first baby was born prematurely and, tragically, was too weak to survive.

The other two were in danger of suffering the same fate until doctors stepped in to try to delay their delivery.

They gave the 31-year-old medication to stop her contractions and got her to lie on a bed tilted at a 30 degree angle, with her feet pointing upwards, to reduce the risk of contractions starting again. 

She remained in the upside down position 24 hours a day for two and a half months. After 75 days, and what is believed to be the longest labour ever recorded, she gave birth to a healthy girl, Iga, and boy, Ignacy, at a neo-natal clinic in the Polish town of Wroclaw.

After leaving her hospital bed, Mrs Krzysztonek had trouble with her balance, but now visits and holds her two babies every day. They remain in incubators but are expected to leave hospital soon.

In December, Donna Kelly, 29, from Coventry, spent ten weeks in a hospital bed tilted at 45 degrees to prevent her suffering a third miscarriage.