Imogen gave birth at 22 weeks and weighing only 515 grams. She, despite the ominous assessments of the doctors who gave her 10% chance to survivesurvived.

After 132 days in the hospitalthe baby returned to home comfort in her Bridget WalesWith mother and father.

“Imogene has been through a lot, more than we will ever go through in our lives, and she made it through,” says her mum, Rachel Stoneshouse.

A few days after a family reveal party, Rachel was admitted to the hospital with bleeding. There, her water broke, and the doctors had to transfer her to another hospital.

“It was so scary. The pain was terrible… I just went into survival mode for myself and my baby and tried to keep breathing despite the pain,” she describes.

A few minutes after the hospitalization, Imogen was born and was immediately placed in an incubator.

The sight of her tiny, extremely fragile and translucent baby in the neonatal intensive care unit was “like an out-of-body experience”, according to the young mother.

She remembers thinking, “This baby should be in my belly, but it isn’t. This fruit is now my child in front of me, and now I have to trust all these people around me.”

Rachel and her partner Corey were told the baby had a third-degree cerebral hemorrhage.

IN 98 days in the neonatal intensive care unitthe baby has overcome countless obstacles, from a heart murmur and pulmonary hemorrhage to sepsis and multiple blood transfusions.

On January 15, the baby was transferred to the special care unit, where he spent more 34 days.

“It was worst days of my lifebut I didn’t realize how great the staff was with me and my family. They trusted me as a mother and my maternal instinct,” says Rachel.

Imogen is at home now, and although her organs are functioning normally, she is still on oxygen.

“When they say that these doctors and nurses are superheroes, they are not lying,” she concludes.

Source: BBC