{"id":249913,"date":"2021-07-28T06:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=249913"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:11:24","slug":"texas-preemie-27-weeks-home-rough-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-preemie-27-weeks-home-rough-nicu\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas preemie born at 27 weeks is home with family after ‘rough road’ in NICU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After 82 days in a Texas NICU, baby Slade, a preemie born 11 weeks early, is home with his family.<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 28, 2021, Slade’s mother Mariaha Jones had an emergency C-section. Texas news station KXII reported<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Jones suffered from preeclampsia. S<\/span>he and Baby Slade\u2019s father, Cody, knew they had a difficult road when Slade was born weighing only a bit over two pounds, and even losing some of that weight.\u00a0\u201cWe were scared to death,” said Cody.<\/p>\n

For a season in Slade\u2019s early life, it appeared that he would advance, then retreat. His mother\u00a0stated in a KXII video<\/a>, \u201cEveryday it seemed that something was always going on and there was so many days we felt complete[ly] hopeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cody <\/span>added<\/span> that he knows preemies survive even earlier than his son. \u201cConsidering that babies make it at 23 weeks pretty often, 27 weeks should have been a breeze,” he said, “but we had our rough road and all of our problems and everything and we are just definitely glad to be where we are now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was honestly really scared I was scared that he wasn\u2019t going to make it,” said Slade’s mother. “I was scared that I wasn\u2019t going to make it, honestly.\u201d But on the day they got the call that they could take their son home, they were elated. “After this long journey, and [it] seemed like everything could possibly go wrong, walking out of those hospital doors was a miracle, to be honest,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slade\u2019s survival is a testimony to life, and as technology advances, more preemies born at his gestational age and much younger have an even greater chance of survival. As\u00a0<\/span>Live Action News previously reported<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0many hospitals have fought to save the lives of extremely premature babies, but more consistency is needed.\u00a0At hospitals across the country, there are disparities in how premature babies are treated. Desperate parents at some hospitals have\u00a0watched helplessly<\/a> as medical professionals refused to help, while parents at other hospitals have watched medical professionals do everything possible to save their children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Preemies<\/a> have survived<\/a>\u00a0with medical care as young<\/a> as 21 weeks<\/a> gestation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The group Twenty-Two Matters features a map<\/span><\/a> of the hospitals which are confirmed to have saved the lives of babies born at 22 weeks. Multiple hospitals across the world are now equipped to save the lives of these preemies. The group’s<\/a> corresponding Twitter page<\/a><\/span>\u00a0hosts photos and testimonies of parents \u2014 some of whom tragically lost their babies after hospitals refused to try to save them, and others whose babies were saved by hospitals at 22 weeks and younger.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kim Cogburn wrote:
\u201cI lost my baby girl at 22 +6 weeks in 2018 as I went into preterm labor. I was in a level 4 nicu hospital that refused to help my baby. We held her for 2 hours until her heart stopped ?.\u201d#TwentyTwoMatters<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/S768nZXCm6<\/a><\/p>\n

— TwentyTwoMatters (@22Matters) July 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n