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Sonja Taylor

Living with a Miracle Baby

By Renee Roberson

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"I was septic, and my uterus and cervix were both infected," Taylor says. "When they took her out, the whole room gasped. They were shocked because she was so small. She had one eye opened and was looking around."

Amazing Amillia

Amillia Taylor was born weighing 9 ounces and measuring 9 1/2 inches long (about the length of an ink pen). Taylor says the neonatologist on staff didn't know what to do with Amillia because he had never seen a baby so small. She had one nurse assigned just to her.

According to Taylor, her doctors believed she was closer to 23 weeks when they delivered Amillia. When her fertility specialist pinpointed the baby's true gestational age of 21 weeks, they were shocked and said they never would have delivered the baby early if they had known that.

Because of her prematurity, Amillia had to stay in the hospital almost four months. At the time of her release, she weighed 4 pounds and required the assistance of an oxygen machine. She had premature lungs, a mild brain hemorrhage and suffered from reflux as an infant. During her first year of life she had laser surgery on her eyes when her retinas started detaching. When she left the hospital she was on 15 different medications. Despite that, Taylor says her daughter never seemed to expect extra attention from her caregivers.

"Amillia never needed much attention from the beginning," Taylor says. "She started out a fighter. She would hold her breath whenever people would open the isolette to touch her."

Taylor had to remain in the hospital for eight days after the birth to recover from her own infection. She may have been released to go home after that, but she was back at the hospital every day to visither newborn daughter.


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