Babies Are Born Prematurely And Baby Health

Babies Are Born Prematurely And Baby Health.
Elise Jackson remembers very starkly the prime her son was born: It was May 8, 2002, and Elijah had arrived 15 weeks before his due date. "My lad sat right in the palm of my hands," Jackson recalled. "he was very, very fragile. It was 25 weeks and one daytime 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 continued. But 14 surgeries and blood transfusions later, Elijah has beaten the dissimilarity to become the 2015 "National Ambassador" for the March of Dimes.

He and his parents will traverse the fatherland from their Chicago-area stingingly this year as the public face of the nonprofit organization, which focuses on pregnancy and pamper health. The story of how far Elijah has come includes the serious health consequences that his hasty birth brought. "It's been a roller coaster ride, and a slow, slow process," Elise Jackson explained ultima. "Now he's in kindergarten and he's very friendly and active, so you wouldn't in a jiffy pick him out as the '1-pound baby'.

But he still needs occupational therapy, because you can tell he's a itsy-bitsy bit slower than the normal 12-year-old, and he struggles a little bit with focusing and paying attention. And when he gets disturbed he has mannerisms, like rocking back and forth or clapping his hands. "He's also asthmatic and very soft-spoken". That matrix characteristic is the result of having had a tracheotomy at the age of 4 months, to gear serious breathing difficulties, Elise Jackson explained.

During the two years there was a crater in his throat, speaking and swallowing were impossible because a feeding tube was inserted directly into his stomach. "He's a ecstatic boy, and was a happy baby, because he didn't know any other way. But he was born really, at bottom sick, and spent the first seven months in the hospital". It was during that chance 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 assistant his lungs develop.