When she was 23 weeks pregnant, Marie Massey started to feel unusual pain her stomach as she was on her way to work one day.
“We kind of knew that there was something real wrong here with the pregnancy,” Rich Abrams, the baby’s father, told ABC News.
He was right: his partner was going into labor nearly four months earlier than expected.
Marie delivered baby Faith and she weighed 15 oz. — less than a pound. Babies born this early have a slim chance of survival…and for the babies who do make it, severe health problems are very likely.
“Her chances of survival were somewhere between the 10 and 20 percent range,” said neonatologist Dr. Michael Espiritu of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. (Faith was also the smallest baby he'd ever seen.)
The parents were devastated by the news, but remained optimistic.
“It was just a strong belief that she was going to be okay,” Massey said.
Similarly to the premature triplet who survived despite a chronic lung disease, Faith beat the odds and grew to be happy, healthy baby.
"It was such a happy day for me, for everyone who cared for her," said Dr. Espiritu. "Seeing her from when she was so tiny and seeing her look like she was a regular baby, as if nothing had happened to her."
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