{"id":187097,"date":"2018-08-17T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187097"},"modified":"2018-08-17T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:57:58","slug":"premature-25-weeks-winston-miraculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/premature-25-weeks-winston-miraculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Born premature at 25 weeks, Winston’s story of survival is ‘miraculous’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In late October of 2017, Little Winston Rochat was born 15 weeks premature, weighing just one pound, one ounce at birth, and measuring just over 11 inches<\/a>. His mother, Jenny Bergstrom, has Crohn’s disease and had so much difficulty becoming pregnant that she took seven pregnancy tests in disbelief upon learning that Winston was in her womb. She and Winston’s father, Tom Rochat, had been discussing adoption when they got the news. According to the St. Cloud Times<\/a>, Jenny’s mother called the pregnancy “pretty miraculous from the start.”<\/p>\n

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The Times notes that Winston was delivered a few months early because of Jenny’s “diagnosis of HELLP syndrome<\/a> and pre-eclampsia<\/a>, potentially deadly complications tied to high blood pressure.”<\/p>\n

READ: Premature baby girl thriving after being given 1% chance of survival<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenny’s sister Kristine remarked at the time on her amazement at how perfectly formed Winston was at 25 weeks. “I’ve never seen a baby that small. I couldn’t believe how developed he was for how young,” she said. Indeed, babies at 25 weeks are fully formed. They have the ability to taste, they have sweat glands, they open and close their eyes, they startle at loud noises, they hear and respond to other sounds, and so much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n