Parents of micro-preemies work toward the light It was eight years ago when Anthony and Ali Davis slipped a gold wedding ring over the wrist of a baby boy in the neonatal intensive care unit at Kern Medical Center. The contrast of the hard, precious metal against the infant’s tender, translucent skin spoke volumes about just how tiny and fragile he was. It also symbolized the lifelong commitment the adoptive parents would make to the 3-month-old micro-preemie they would come to name Matthew. “Ali was pretty smitten from the start,” Anthony Davis recalled of those days. “So was I.” The adoption of Matthew, who weighed less than 1 ½ pounds when he was born in the 23rd week of pregnancy to a drug-using birth mother would mark the beginning of a journey the Davises knew would be fraught with challenges and difficulties. But they could never have imagined the rewards. Two years after adopting Matthew, who is now 8 and in the third grade, the Davises became the adoptive parents of Emma, a 6-year-old first-grader. Their youngest child, Nathan, is just 17 months. Another micro-preemie who weighed 1.4 pounds at birth, Nathan had been exposed to cocaine in utero. He was also a “safe surrender” baby, meaning [...] newsinca/parents-of-micro-preemies-work-toward-the-light/
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:15:18 +0000
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