Baby survives extremely premature birth with P.E.I. hospital's help
CBC
When Sutton Ivy McCabe was born, she was so small that even standard premature baby clothes wouldn't fit her.
Now, after spending weeks in the IWK Health Centre in Halifax and then the newly refitted neonatal intensive care unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, Sutton is finally home.
Her parents, Kennedie Ogden and Jesse McCabe, say she's growing stronger every day.
"She's the love of my life and Kennedie's life. She's just our everything," said Jesse McCabe, Sutton's father.
"She's overcome so much already. It's honestly hard to believe how much she's been through, and how she shows us just how much fight she has inside of her."
He says it all started last November. Kennedie was pregnant with Sutton and Jesse was working a night shift when he got a call.
"Kennedie wasn't feeling the greatest, so I packed up and I went home. We went over to the hospital, they did some checkups. Everything was fine," Jesse said.
About a week later, things took a turn for the worse.
"She had another appointment where they noted that there was some medical complications going on," said Jesse.
He describes what happened next as a blur, with his wife needing to be airlifted to the IWK.
"I drove over that evening myself, and it was just … an unknown situation. We had no idea what to expect," said Jesse.
Doctors told the parents they were going to try to keep Sutton in the womb as long as they could, given that Kennedie's due date was Feb. 2. In the end, the tiny girl entered the world on Nov. 21.
"Flash-forward about a week after we were there, Sutton was born at a whopping one pound, 15 ounces," Jesse said.
According to the World Health Organization, the average birth weight of a full-term newborn is seven pounds six ounces.
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