{"id":314066,"date":"2024-06-18T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=314066"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:24:56","slug":"minnesota-family-coming-home-premature-birth-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/minnesota-family-coming-home-premature-birth-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota family’s two-week Brazil vacation became four-month stay after premature birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris and Cheri Phillips of Cambridge, Minnesota, are planning on returning home with their baby, Greyson, after spending four months in Brazil following Greyson\u2019s premature delivery. The couple was vacationing in Brazil in March with a plan to stay for two weeks, when Cheri Phillips, then 28 weeks along in her pregnancy, went into labor.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to ABC News<\/span><\/a>, the couple was planning on enjoying a relaxing time before Cheri Phillips gave birth to the couple\u2019s first child. The last ultrasound that the couple had before leaving Minnesota showed that the baby was on schedule to be born in May. However, shortly before the couple was due to fly home, on March 8, Cheri began experiencing labor pains.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It started off that I just kind of had a backache … I thought I just need to go lie down and I’ll feel better in the morning,” said Cheri in an interview with <\/span>Good Morning America<\/span><\/a>. “About 4 a.m., I started bleeding, so I woke Chris up and off to [the] hospital we went,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doctors at a maternity hospital in <\/span>Florian\u00f3polis, a city in Southern Brazil, attempted to prevent Cheri from delivering early so that she could give birth back home in Minnesota. But after four days at the maternity hospital, the mom had to be rushed into an emergency C-section, and Greyson Leo Phillips was delivered safely, weighing just over two pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n