BABY BORN AT JUST 10 OUNCES FINALLY GETS TO GO HOME

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    One of the world’s smallest surviving babies is finally out of the hospital.

    Born 14 weeks early and weighing just 10 ounces, E’Layah Faith Pergues faced an uphill battle to survive. Her doctors at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, were not sure that she would survive her delivery or the first few weeks of life.

    She was born so early that doctors weren’t even sure how to feed her.

    “Our goal since her birth was to grow her as quickly and as safely as we could,” said Dr. Andrew Herman, MD, neonatologist and chief medical officer at Levine Children’s Hospital in a statement.

    read more http://kticradio.com/abc_health/baby-born-at-just-10-ounces-finally-gets-to-go-home-abcid35608127/
     

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