{"id":301948,"date":"2023-11-21T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=301948"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:25:40","slug":"micro-preemie-size-phone-survives-25-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/micro-preemie-size-phone-survives-25-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-preemie ‘size of a phone’ survives birth at 25 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Australian micro-preemie has survived despite being the “size of a phone” at birth.<\/p>\n

Chrissy Gronbek told Yahoo News Australia<\/a> that she was just 25 weeks pregnant when she unexpectedly went into labor, experiencing a delivery that was extremely quick. “Wyatt came flying into the world in a grand total of 16 minutes,” she said. “It only took three pushes.”<\/p>\n

Weighing just 794 grams, Wyatt was whisked away to intensive care immediately, before Chrissy could even see him.<\/p>\n

“The first time I ever saw him was a picture on my husband’s phone and he was about the size of my husband’s phone,” she said.<\/p>\n

During this time, she said she experienced an intense fear that she would lose him, calling the situation “unfathomable.”<\/p>\n

After surgery and an extensive time in the NICU, Wyatt was able to pull through. After four months, Chrissy and her husband Matthew were able to take little Wyatt home.<\/p>\n