Baby Born at 22 Weeks and Given a 10% Chance to Survive is Doing Great a Year Later
Baby Isla was born 18 weeks early and was given just a 10% chance of survival. A year later, he is thriving and just passed his first birthday.
Lauren Ormston and Oliver Dewey were expecting their first child together in July last year. But their daughter, baby Isla, has a different plan. Everything seemed to be going well until early March when Lauren was 22 weeks pregnant.
She began experiencing severe stomach pains and went to the hospital that night where doctors told her she was in labor and that her baby was unlikely to survive.
Lauren was taken to St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, south-west London. She arrived at the hospital at 7:30pm and within two hours her daughter was born weighing only 535g.
He had a 10% chance of survival
“Labor was easy, and all I had was gas and air”, Lauren saidbut things are not so easy for baby Isla.
“I only held Isla for six minutes before she was taken”, said her mother. “He looked so small and fragile as if he would snap at the slightest movement”.
Isla was so premature that she suffered a bleed in her brain and a hole in her heart and spent six weeks on a ventilator.
“I lived each day, not knowing if he would make it, every day, hour by hour, minute by minute”, said Lauren. It was hard for his parents to give him a hug because of all the tubes that were blocked.
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When he was only two months old, he lost sight in one eye and surgeons could not fix it. But on her due date, July 12, four months after the actual birth, she weighed 4kg and was home with her parents.
Now, over a year old. He weighs 7kg, can sit and crawl and even stand with a little help.
“Looking at him now, you’d never know he was premature”, Lauren said. “She’s a neat little lady now, she’s got her own personality, and she’s the most independent little girl ever”.
“[W]I live each day because you never know what’s around the corner. We are just grateful for what we have, so grateful she was strong enough to defeat the odds and prove everyone wrong”, he added.
Right To Life UK spokeswoman Catherine Robinson said “Isla is yet another baby born before the UK’s abortion limit. Cases like this are a continuing challenge to our abortion law, which allows abortions up to 24 weeks .”
LifeNews Note: Republished with permission from Right to Life UK.
