{"id":260078,"date":"2022-01-03T06:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=260078"},"modified":"2021-12-31T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:08:37","slug":"ten-years-preemie-born-family-knits-hats-support-nicu-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ten-years-preemie-born-family-knits-hats-support-nicu-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years after their own preemie was born, family knits hats to support NICU patients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In celebration of their prematurely born daughter’s 10th birthday this year, one Iowa family delivered hand-knitted hats to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Joanna Strong was born at 28 weeks, weighing just one pound four ounces. For some reason, she had stopped growing, so doctors decided that an emergency c-section was the only thing that would save little Joanna. “Her foot was the size of my thumb,” her mom told KCCI<\/a>. Joanna spent 125 days in the NICU before being able to go home with her family.<\/p>\n

Joanna’s mom says that during her long stay in the NICU, the only thing her daughter was allowed to wear were hats \u2014 other clothing restricted medical access to Joanna should the doctors need to help her immediately. Mom said that it was the memory of those daily hats that gave her a new idea. “One day I was just looking through everything and I just thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is what I’m supposed to do,'” she said.<\/p>\n