{"id":261338,"date":"2022-01-28T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261338"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:18:59","slug":"micro-preemie-22-weeks-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/micro-preemie-22-weeks-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-preemie born at 22 weeks heads home from the hospital: ‘She’s a miracle’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shantel Allmon’s water broke when she was only 22 weeks pregnant, causing the Virginia mother to think she was suffering a miscarriage.\u00a0\u201cI honestly thought I had a miscarriage in my bathroom, so I\u2019m crying hysterically; I start to panic,\u201d she told NBC 12<\/a>. Allmon raced to the hospital where she learned that she hadn’t miscarried at all. Instead, she was about to give birth to her micro-preemie daughter, Leilani, who weighed in at just over one pound.<\/p>\n

\u201cScariest moment of my life, honestly,\u201d Allmon said. \u201cI didn\u2019t even think it was a chance for her at 22 weeks.\u201d While her chances may have been slim, Leilani defied the odds and is now thriving. After four months in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), she was able to go home to be with her family, a development that at least one doctor is describing as a “miracle.”<\/p>\n

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