{"id":263610,"date":"2022-03-01T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=263610"},"modified":"2022-02-28T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:35:20","slug":"couple-smallest-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/couple-smallest-premature\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple welcomes Tennessee hospital’s smallest-ever preemie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Rachel Harvey was rushed<\/a> to the high-risk pregnancy unit in late 2021 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, doctors decided not to perform an emergency c-section until it was absolutely necessary. Two weeks later, at 27 weeks, baby Levi James was born premature, weighing just 10 ounces \u2014 the smallest baby to ever be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Erlanger Hospital.<\/p>\n

Measuring the size of a preborn baby at 21 weeks, baby Levi was born after doctors discovered his mother’s amniotic fluid was low and he hadn’t been growing properly. Her blood pressure was too high as well, and that was causing problems with the placenta, according to the family’s GoFundMe<\/a> page. After about two weeks, the situation became more serious.<\/p>\n

“At this point, though, the blood flow declined and it was becoming dangerous for Levi to stay inside of his mom,” Levi’s father Damon Harvey wrote. “Unfortunately, it was discovered that Levi had only grown a little more since arriving, and he was still only measuring around 21 weeks. We hoped for a few more days in order to give Levi the steroids, but it was decided rather suddenly that we needed to operate quickly.”<\/p>\n