{"id":166702,"date":"2017-06-02T09:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166702"},"modified":"2017-06-05T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:47:56","slug":"parents-share-video-premature-baby-girl-born-stopped-growing-18-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/parents-share-video-premature-baby-girl-born-stopped-growing-18-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents share video of premature baby girl born after she stopped growing at 18 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brooklen Nicole was born on May 23, 2017, after an emergency C-section was performed in hopes of saving her. Though she lived only a few days, Brooklen touched the hearts of thousands of people after her parents shared a video of her to K-Love’s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Complications with her umbilical cord and placenta were\u00a0<\/span>discovered at 18 weeks and\u00a0left the little girl unable to properly grow in the womb past that point. Her parents had a decision to make and chose to travel to a hospital with doctors who could give their daughter a chance. At 24 weeks and three days\u00a0gestation, weighing just nine ounces, Brooklen Nicole was born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“The options given to mom and dad were: sit and wait and hope for a heartbeat week after week, or drive quite a ways to a specialized hospital who could give the baby a chance,” explained Brooklen’s aunt Kella Lowe. “They waited six days to deliver, the doctors said five percent chance (of Brooklen’s survival) upon prep for the c-section so mom and dad were prepared to say goodbye right away.”<\/p>\n

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