Miracle in New York: baby born “Barbie doll size” weighing less than 2 pounds survived and went home after 5 months in the hospital

Shyne Graham, a New York baby who was born prematurely weighing just 1 pound and 11 ounces, is performing a true miracle by being able to go home to Baldwin (Long Island) after spending 5 months in the hospital.

The baby was born 24 weeks and 3 days early on January 24 and “was the size of a Barbie doll,” a statement from NYU Langone Hospital detailed. “She Now she weighs almost 10 pounds and she is a chubby baby. God has given us a blessing. Shyne is fine,” summarized her mother, Phaebe Turner.

Shyne had little chance of survival. Among other challenges she suffered from respiratory distress and had to be intubated for three months, while she suffered two rounds of E. coli infection and strep throat. But now, five months after her birth, Shyne was discharged from the hospital on June 19 with all the fanfare she deserved, through “a graduation program” that helps parents of premature babies commemorate this important milestone.

The baby was born 24 weeks and 3 days early and was the size of a Barbie doll

“I want to walk around the block with Shyne in the sun and I can’t wait to see her in a stroller and a car seat,” said Turner, who also suffered from pneumonia, an E. coli infection and strep throat after undergo emergency cesarean birth surgery and couldn’t even hold Shyne when he was born. The grateful mother praises NYU Langone for the care she and her daughter received.

“She was so little. “Her hand was the size of my thumb,” Turner recalled in statements to the New York Post after spending the first night at home with his daughter. “I feel completely relieved to have her home. I did not sleep last night; “He just looked at her and thought, ‘Is it really real that she’s finally here?'”

“We are always excited about babies going home, especially our ‘veterans’ – babies who have been here for more than three months – because they beat the odds to survive every day,” said LaShon Pitter, nurse manager of the Care Unit. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). “Graduations celebrate not only the baby’s journey but also the parents’ brave journey out of the NICU and into the next stage of life.”

Turner had a miscarriage on Mother’s Day 2022. Shyne was supposed to be born around Mother’s Day this year, but she arrived almost four months early, in late January. After months of hope and prayer, her tight-knit family of Caribbean origin can finally celebrate the official arrival home of a new generation.

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