Meet Kimberly Thomas and Demonte Jackson, who spent 4 months living at the hospital, making sure their premature twin babies, Kimya and DJ were getting the love and care they needed in order to survive when they did the Ohio hospital that had gotten so invested in this family threw it *** small graduation. According to SWNS, the twins were given as little as 10% chance of survival when they enter. The world last October. They were so small that they could fit in the palm of Kimberly's hands. But after months of intensive care, having suffered brain bleeding and *** collapsed lung, the babies were allowed to go home. Becky Stewart, *** nurse at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said in an interview that during their time in the NICU, the intensive care unit, I treated them as if they were my own children. I love The like I love my own girls and formed *** bond with them that will stick with me forever. Kimberly, who was not able to hold her babies for the first month of their premature lives, spent every day with them at the hospital until she was able to mother them properly, leading to *** very emotional graduation where the twins dressed in caps and gowns passed all their medical milestones and began their journey in this crazy, crazy world.
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Latoya Burnett recalled her time in the hospital caring for her son, Royal, who was born prematurely."Every day, I just made it my will to go in there and sing 'Happy Birthday,'" she said. Burnett says her doctor in California told her she was 10 centimeters dilated and her baby wasn't going to make it.Video above: Premature babies 'graduate' from hospital “The hospital back in California, they were just a Level 2 hospital. They couldn't provide the resources, the equipment that was needed to support him being so young,” Burnett said.One quick search on her phone led Burnett to this article about the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital delivering a record-breaking premature baby at 21 weeks and one day.The couple said it was time to head back home to Alabama.“We get on the plane, and mind you, she's still leaking amniotic fluid all the time. We've had to go 33,000 feet in the air where the baby could come out," Burnett said. Mom eventually delivered the baby, Royal, on Feb. 13, 2024. Every day after that would be challenging. Burnett said, “It was a lot dealing with a 15 oz baby. It took him a lot to get to a pound. In my mind, all of this was an illusion, and things got better once as I got to see his heartbeat once they got him out and they bagged him, and we saw that (heart) monitor continue to do this. That's when I knew he was going to make it."Royal made it to the one-year mark of life and with many more to come. Mom, dad and big sister are all happy they didn't give up.“You just got to keep holding on to faith, keep fighting for him and keep advocating,” Burnett said.
Latoya Burnett recalled her time in the hospital caring for her son, Royal, who was born prematurely.
"Every day, I just made it my will to go in there and sing 'Happy Birthday,'" she said.
Burnett says her doctor in California told her she was 10 centimeters dilated and her baby wasn't going to make it.
Video above: Premature babies 'graduate' from hospital
“The hospital back in California, they were just a Level 2 hospital. They couldn't provide the resources, the equipment that was needed to support him being so young,” Burnett said.
One quick search on her phone led Burnett to this article about the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital delivering a record-breaking premature baby at 21 weeks and one day.
The couple said it was time to head back home to Alabama.
“We get on the plane, and mind you, she's still leaking amniotic fluid all the time. We've had to go 33,000 feet in the air where the baby could come out," Burnett said.
Mom eventually delivered the baby, Royal, on Feb. 13, 2024. Every day after that would be challenging.
Burnett said, “It was a lot dealing with a 15 oz baby. It took him a lot to get to a pound. In my mind, all of this was an illusion, and things got better once as I got to see his heartbeat once they got him out and they bagged him, and we saw that (heart) monitor continue to do this. That's when I knew he was going to make it."
Royal made it to the one-year mark of life and with many more to come. Mom, dad and big sister are all happy they didn't give up.
“You just got to keep holding on to faith, keep fighting for him and keep advocating,” Burnett said.
