{"id":240667,"date":"2021-02-27T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=240667"},"modified":"2021-02-26T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:04:45","slug":"preemie-10-chance-survival-home-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preemie-10-chance-survival-home-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Preemie given 10% chance of survival heads home from the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sofia Viktoria Birina could possibly be Scotland’s youngest surviving premature baby after she was born at just 22 weeks on October 2. Doctors gave her only a 10% chance of surviving the birth, according to The Mirror<\/a>, and even less of a chance of survival if she was born alive. However, the one-pound, one-ounce baby overcame the obstacles and is now home with her mother Egija and father Inars.<\/p>\n

“Everything was fine at the twenty-week scan,” said Egija. “Then just over a week later, I felt pain so I went into hospital and was told that I was already dilated and had to go into labour.”<\/p>\n

Egija was put on bed rest that lasted ten days before Sofia was born. Doctors offered little hope and her parents didn’t expect her to survive. Sofia overcame a heart defect, a stage one brain bleed, retinopathy of prematurity (an eye disease), and infections. Because her lungs were not mature enough, she required assistance with breathing.<\/p>\n

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