{"id":292689,"date":"2023-06-09T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=292689"},"modified":"2023-06-08T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:44:54","slug":"peadar-oboyle-23-weeks-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/peadar-oboyle-23-weeks-premature\/","title":{"rendered":"Premature baby born at 23 weeks thriving after 111 days in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peadar O\u2019Boyle <\/span>of Drogheda, Ireland, spent<\/a> his<\/span> first 111 days after his premature birth in the hospital. Born at just 23 weeks and six days gestation and weighing only one pound, six ounces, P<\/span>eadar had to be ventilated as soon as he was born and remained on the ventilator for five weeks. He also suffered meningitis, bleeds on his brain and hydrocephalus, and was given only a 40% chance of survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peadar\u2019s mother, Ruth Levins, was told while pregnant with her older son, Malachy, that reaching 24 weeks gestation was a big milestone because babies could often survive outside of the womb at that time. Today, babies born as young as 21 weeks have survived. <\/span>While pregnant with Peadar, Ruth suffered a high fever caused by a urinary tract infection, inducing premature labor just one day before hitting that 24-week milestone. After an emergency C-section, “<\/span>Peadar has had to fight from the first minute he was born,” said his mother.<\/span><\/p>\n