{"id":212965,"date":"2019-10-27T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=212965"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:29:51","slug":"micro-preemie-25-weeks-goes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/micro-preemie-25-weeks-goes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-preemie born at 25 weeks goes home after 150 days in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Born 15 weeks early in May of this year, baby Kallie Bender of Phoenix, Arizona,<\/a> was discharged home with her family on Monday after 150 days in the hospital.<\/p>\n

During her pregnancy,\u00a0Kallie’s mother, Ebonie, had been seeing a high-risk doctor for high blood pressure, also called pregnancy-induced hypertension.\u00a0High blood pressure in a pregnant woman can be dangerous for the baby because of reduced blood flow to the baby through the placenta, also called placental insufficiency. Over time, reduced blood flow to the baby can prevent the baby from growing properly (medically, this is called intrauterine growth restriction or IUGR) and lead to lung and gastro-intestinal development problems.<\/p>\n

Four days before Kallie was born, an ultrasound at a high-risk appointment showed that due to poor placental blood flow, also called absent end diastolic flow, Kallie had almost no amniotic fluid around her. Mom Ebonie was admitted to the hospital, and Ebonie was born via cesarean section (C-section) on May 24th, 2019, at 25 weeks gestation. She weighed less than one pound, and was shorter than a Barbie doll placed next to her in her incubator.<\/p>\n