{"id":1869,"date":"2012-03-27T22:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:52:42","slug":"alexandra-mccann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/alexandra-mccann\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Alexandra home for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1870\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/alexandra-mccann\/755696-alexandra-mccann\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1870\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/755696-alexandra-mccann-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Alexandra McCann with her parents Emma and Paul. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Baby Alexandra McCann&#8217;s rough start to life is over &#8211; the seven-week-old is due home for the very first time tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Parents Emma Barton and Paul McCann are overjoyed that their infant daughter, who has already had two major operations, will spend her first night at Thornbury in her own cot.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra was born with Pierre Robin Sequence, where her lower jaw was so small it caused life-threatening breathing problems.<\/p>\n<p>At birth Alexandra was whisked straight to The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH), where she was monitored before having jaw distraction surgery at four weeks, Ms Barton said.<\/p>\n<p>Oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr Jocelyn Shand attached metal devices to both sides of Alexandra&#8217;s jaw and linked them to adjustable rods.<\/p>\n<p>The device will be removed in a month, and her cleft palate closed surgically when she is a year old.<\/p>\n<p>Words by Marianne Betts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Alexandra McCann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/parents-watch-on-helplessly-as-their-brave-little-girl-fights-for-life\/story-fn7x8me2-1226311758494\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_introduction) --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Alexandra McCann&#8217;s rough start to life is over &#8211; the seven-week-old, who was born with Pierre Robin Sequence, is due home for the very first time tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}