Ciarán O'Driscoll

But the baby had to be resuscitated.

Elsie May, her name is.

She's my whole life today, like, you know.

She'll be six in May.

She had to be resuscitated.

And I just looked up.

It was 20 to 5, beautiful summer's morning, Brenda.

I looked up at all the lights and I said, God, please don't do this to me now.

I just, like, there was doors behind me.

They were running from everywhere, like, you know.

There was paramedics running from there, grabbed the baby.

it was like something in the movie like i said what's going on here like you know and i was looking up the lights god please don't do this to me you know my wife was totally distressed like what's going on what's going on where's my baby so they took her away down to um neonated they put her because there was no oxygen to the brain they put her on um

They put her on a cooling blanket for 72 hours.

I went down.

I went down.

I said, can I see the baby?

And they said, you need to leave the hospital now, you know, because, again, we were in COVID.

Like, you know, you need to leave the hospital.

They put her on a blanket for 72 hours, cooling blanket.

Then they put her on the warm blanket for another 72 hours again, you know, and she made a full recovery.