Baby doing well
PA Hamilton Tangaroa Harawira, the premature baby, who survived a 550 km ordeal from birth to reaching hospital, is improving well. His mother, Ngaromoana Raureti, said yesterday that Tangaroa was doing well and was happy and healthy. The eight-week premature baby was not gaining weight yet, but that was to be expected, she said. Last week Tangaroa’s unexpectedly early birth at the home of Miss Raureti and her husband, Taiawa Harawira, in Te Kao, 100 km north of Kaitaia, marked the start of a dramatic journey to Waikato Hospital. The trip involved Mr Harawira running across mud flats for help, and mother and baby being taken to hospital by car, ambulance and plane. During the trip Tangaroa stopped breathing several times. The baby was kept alive for three hours by a doctor pumping his chest and he was placed on a ventilator when he reached hospital. He is in the new-born unit at Waikato Hospital.
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