{"id":234169,"date":"2020-11-05T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=234169"},"modified":"2020-11-05T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:34:59","slug":"preemie-week-ward-miller-8-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preemie-week-ward-miller-8-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Preemie of the Week: Viral video star Ward Miles Miller is now a thriving 8-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In July of 2012, Ward Miles Miller<\/a> was born three and a half months early weighing just 1.5 pounds. His father Ben chronicled the first year of Ward’s life in a heartwarming video<\/a> that went viral and has now amassed more than 35 million views on YouTube. Viewers loved watching Ward grow from a tiny preemie with his mother holding him for the first time into a laughing and thriving one-year-old. Now, eight years old and in the second grade, Ward continues to thrive.<\/p>\n

Born at 25 weeks, Ward required the use of numerous machines to support him as he fought to survive. He spent 107 days in the neonatal intensive care unit and his parents were unsure at times if he would survive, but Ward overcame obstacle after obstacle. Today, he’s a big brother to Jude, age four, and loves to play hockey, enjoys math class best at school, and wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up.\u00a0Though he struggled with vomiting as a toddler, he now has no issues at all from being born so young.<\/p>\n

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