While parents to full-term babies often marvel at how tiny their precious newborn is, they’re nowhere near as small as premature babies, and one first-time mom decided to put that size into perspective.
Tiffany Thomas was just six months pregnant when she started experiencing back pain and blood loss, which sparked an early labor. Despite having three entire months left before her due date, she gave birth to her first daughter, Alice, weighing just 1 lb 14.5 oz.
“When she was born my partner and I didn’t get to hold her,’ said 27-year-old Tiffany. ‘They stabilized her on the resuscitation table and I sat up on the bed and I could just see them doing CPR on her. After they stabilized her we got to see her but then she was taken to the Royal Gwent hospital in an ambulance.”
“We couldn’t touch her for 17 days. We could get some contact through the holes in the incubator but we couldn’t hug her or hold her properly,” mom explained. “Being told when you can and can’t touch your own child is difficult. We have no pictures of her first day but we know the reason for that was for her own benefit because she had to be treated.”
But little by little, baby Alice started getting stronger and was able to spend ten minutes a day being cuddled by mom and dad. “Alice was tiny and a nurse told me to put my engagement ring on her arm to see how tiny she was. It fit around her arm all the way up to her shoulder,” Tiffany said.
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Premature Baby Wears Mom’s Engagement Ring As A Bracelet is an article from: LifeDaily