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One of Northern Ireland’s most premature babies is finally able to return home from hospital with her mother Fionnuala McArdle was just 23 weeks pregnant when her daughter was born on October 9 last year. Her baby weighed just over a pound (480g) and doctors at the...
By Nancy Flanders Baby E’Layah Pegues, one of the smallest and youngest babies to have ever survived premature birth, is going home. She was born via emergency C-section on September 23, 2015, at just 24 weeks gestation. E’Layah’s mother Megan Smith began to...
By Nancy Flanders At 23 weeks gestation, Angela Bakker and her husband Michael were devastated to learn that their baby girl was not going to live. A routine ultrasound revealed that she was measuring much smaller than she should be, and she was diagnosed with...
By Dave Andrusko We carry some very tragic news today. Here's some of the best kind of news to help balance it out. When a child is born 15 weeks early; when she weighs less than 13 ounces; when she can fit in the palm of your hand; and when Naomi Joy Bakker’s hands...
By Dave Andrusko Little Carlo Cucchi was so small when he was born at 24 weeks, his mom, Sarah, said, “We were told he was in a critical condition and that we should get him blessed because he might not last the night, so we did.” His dad, also named Carlo, told Emily...
By Dave Andrusko Holley Tierney was 23-weeks pregnant when the dance instructor felt a pain in her chest. She’d carried a sound system that day and attributed the pain to that. But better safe than sorry, she went to the hospital in Manchester, England, to have it...