A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after six months at a Chicago area hospital. Nyla Brooke Haywood left a hospital in New Lenox, Illinois, on Monday with her first-time parents, NaKeya and Cory Haywood of Joliet. Nyla was delivered Nov.
A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after six months at a suburban Chicago hospital.This undated photo shows 6-month-old Nyla Brooke Haywood, a baby girl born Nov. 17, 2023, at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Illinois . Nyla was born at just 22 weeks weighing 1 pound and 1 ounce, making her what’s known as a “micropreemie.
Nyla was delivered on Nov. 17 at just 22 weeks after her mother, NaKeya, was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, a dangerous high-blood pressure condition. She weighed 1 pound and 1 ounce and was 11 inches long, making her what’s known as aBut she left the hospital Monday weighing a healthy 10 pounds and at 21 inches long after months of treatment and nurturing in its neonatal intensive care unit.
“She cried at birth. It was a little whimper, but it was a cry. Her heart rate always remained over 100, which for us is where we wanted it to be. She came out fighting right off the bat,” he said.
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