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Emmett was “black and blue all over” when Corbey first saw him. His right arm was also twice the size of his left. It used to hang limp, but Emmett has since gone through physical therapy.

“Amazingly, he is now right handed,” Corbey said.

Emmett had seizures for the first five days of his life. After a 69 day stay buy moncler jackets in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), he went home with a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube to help him eat (it was removed a month later). He also spent moncler mens jackets time in a children’s hospital right before his first birthday because of viral meningitis, which sparked a bout of seizures.

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She offered advice to parents watching their premature babies fight in the NICU, noting that it’s a “confusing state to be in.”

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Meet my 5 year old son, Luca. He is goofy, wickedly smart, obsessed with trains and so handsome (I totally biased!). My son was born at 28 weeks, weighing 3 pounds, 6 ounces.

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We are so proud of his journey, of him and his strength. While new challenges have recently surfaced, we are confident that he will overcome them as well.

We will never be able to thank those NICU nurses and doctors enough. Thank you to them, for holding him and loving him when we couldn be there.

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Here are my two photos cheap moncler sale of my now 2 and a half year old son, Trey. He was born two months early, on March 1, 2015, shortly after a visit from New Orleans to Milwaukee for a baby shower. He required a 23 day NICU stay at St. Joseph Hospital, and Mom stayed in Milwaukee while Dad returned to work in New Orleans. He was known as “Sweet Baby Eddie” and did not miss a thing in the NICU.

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Everyone told me that one day it would all just click and he would feed better on his own when he was ready. They also said that eventually you would never be able to tell he was a preemie. It was hard to believe at the time when but they were so right!

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I was admitted at 22 weeks, 3 centimeters dilated with a bulging amniotic sac. I was on labor and delivery cheap moncler outlet for eight days where I received steroids and magnesium that were supposed to help my baby develop. Two days later, at 24 weeks, I delivered a baby girl weighing only 1 pound, 5 ounces, and just shy of 12 inches. She fought for about four months and came home weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces.

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