# @mainlinehealth on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Czj1IFHrIMv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9866588-mainlinehealth-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-12T20:44:16.000+00:00

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In continuing our support for #PrematurityAwarenessMonth, read Janette Heil’s story: 

“Our third daughter, Calliope (Callie), was born in June 2023 at 29 weeks due to intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), preeclampsia and reduced cord flow, weighing just 1 lb 12.4 oz. Although my obstetrics practice only delivers at Paoli Hospital, she was born at Bryn Mawr Hospital after I was sent to the labor and delivery unit following a Doppler scan at Bryn Mawr's Perinatal Testing Center. I was monitored for about 36 hours before the team decided to deliver Callie via c-section. 

Prior to delivery, Richard B. Ritterman, MD came to discuss what would happen with my husband and me. He explained Callie's chances for survival were in the high nineties, which is the same as if a baby is born at 40 weeks. This fact helped me get through her birth and the NICU stay. 

During her stay, we had a necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) scare and she had one blood transition, but mostly she needed to grow. Being born so small, Callie struggled to gain weight in the beginning and although she was extubated quickly, she took months to be able to reduce her oxygen support. Once she did, she was able to start oral feeds and went home eight days later. It went so fast at the end! 

Callie spent 75 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and came home two days before her due date. Dr. Ritterman got to discharge her! She weighed 4 lbs 10 oz at discharge. Now, Callie is home with her big sisters, Penelope (6) and Aurora (3), who are obsessed with her. Callie is smiling and cooing and recently started physical therapy. 

I will never have the words to express my gratitude to the doctors and nurses who cared for Callie in the NICU. They didn't just care for her, but for me, too. They were there to celebrate the good days and to hug and reassure me on the not-so-great days. We’re so grateful for support from the Parents Advisory Network as well. It was a long summer, but Callie is thriving!”

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