One of the smallest surviving babies in the world,
born 14 weeks early will soon be heading home
from the hospital, her parents who are exceedingly
happy announced this week.
E’Layah Faith Pegues was born on Septemtember
23 and weighed just 10 ounces. On December 29,
her original due date, her parents held a news
conference at the Carolinas Medical Center’s Levine
Children’s Hospital, where the now 3-month-old
holds the record for the smallest surviving baby
born at the hospital.
“E’Layah is our miracle baby girl,” the preemie’s
mother, Megan Smith, told the Charlotte Observer.
Now weighing in at 3 pounds 10.7 ounces, E’Layah
is doing so well that Smith and her fiancé, Eric
Pegues, expect their very little girl will be able to
leave the neonatal intensive care unit, where she has
been living, and go home in the next week or two.
It’s a truly remarkable New Year’s gift for the
Charlotte, who have been concerned about their
daughter’s health since before she was born.
Smith suffered two strokes, high blood pressure,
and rough morning sickness while pregnant with
E’Layah. And when Smith’s obstetrician observed in
August that the baby wasn’t growing, the doctor put
the mother-to-be on bed rest.
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