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A United Kingdom family is celebrating their daughter after she spent 15 months fighting to survive in the NICU.<\/p>\n

Born at 22 weeks, doctors said Maysa Hussain “wouldn’t make it” after her mother, Kamilah Parvez, went into labor early. The terrified parents went to Birmingham Women’s Hospital, where doctors were less than reassuring. “My pregnancy was normal to start with. It was a spontaneous labour. I went to hospital because I had a bleed,” she told the Birmingham World<\/a>. “They told me I was 2cm dilated and she had a 7% survival rate.The doctors kept asking me if we were sure we wanted to continue with the pregnancy. We were told if she was born and not breathing that they would not resuscitate her.”<\/p>\n

“I remember when they told me the survival rate and I just thought how I can\u2019t lose her,” she said. “We really tried with this pregnancy, in my head I was so upset and I just couldn\u2019t lose her. I was in the labour ward for a day and the same night my waters broke and I was rushed down. We both got very poorly and doctors told me if she wasn\u2019t breathing when she was born they wouldn\u2019t resuscitate her.”<\/p>\n

Medical advancements have allowed premature children to survive at younger and younger ages, though they have to be given the chance to live. Doctors often will still (as in Maysa’s case) refuse to provide lifesaving care, seeing micropreemies as a lost cause. Yet studies have found that up to 71%<\/a> of premature infants born at 22 and 23 weeks can survive if they are given active care, instead of just palliative care. A growing number of preemies have survived<\/a> after being born<\/a> at 21 weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n