Babies Are Born Prematurely And Baby Health

Babies Are Born Prematurely And Baby Health.
Elise Jackson remembers very positively the age her son was born: It was May 8, 2002, and Elijah had arrived 15 weeks before his due date. "My sprog sat in a beeline in the palm of my hands," Jackson recalled. "he was very, very fragile. It was 25 weeks and one date into my pregnancy, and he was just 1 pound, 1 ounce". At the time, Elise and her husband, Todd, were told that Elijah's chances for survival were only about 10 percent capsule. But 14 surgeries and blood transfusions later, Elijah has beaten the probability to become the 2015 "National Ambassador" for the March of Dimes.

He and his parents will junket the boondocks from their Chicago-area hospice this year as the social pretence of the nonprofit organization, which focuses on pregnancy and tot health. The fishing of how far Elijah has come includes the life-and-death salubriousness consequences that his too soon nativity brought. "It's been a mangle coaster ride, and a slow, hesitant process," Elise Jackson explained. "Now he's in coach and he's very pally and active, so you wouldn't instantaneously bring him out as the '1-pound baby'.

But he still needs occupational therapy, because you can asseverate he's a diminutive bit slower than the normal 12-year-old, and he struggles a smidgen bit with focusing and paying attention. And when he gets discomfited he has mannerisms, identical to rocking back and forth or clapping his hands. "He's also asthmatic and very soft-spoken". That endure mark is the result of having had a tracheotomy at the age of 4 months, to come to grips with serious breathing difficulties, Elise Jackson explained.

During the two years there was a oubliette in his throat, speaking and swallowing were hopeless because a feeding tube was inserted later into his stomach. "He's a apt boy, and was a happy baby, because he didn't be acquainted with any other way. But he was born really, categorically sick, and spent the beforehand seven months in the hospital". It was during that patch that Elise Jackson got involved with the March of Dimes. "There was a point, at about 2 or 3 months of age, when he needed a medication to balm his lungs develop.