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Maternal health

‘They Brought Her Up To My Face, And I Thought I Was Saying Goodbye’: Just 1.5 Pounds At Birth, This Girl Is Now The Best Reader In Her Class

Liza Smith
November 28, 2018
In the corner of the second-grade classroom at Safa School in Dubai, Grace’s nose is buried in a Harry Potter book. She looks like any other eager 9-year-old reader. Only the pinprick scars on her hands and feet expose the months she struggled to survive her premature birth.
In 2009, Grace’s mom, Niamh Graham, was thrilled to learn she was pregnant with her first child. She experienced a smooth pregnancy until the 24th week, when, while walking slowly on the treadmill, she felt a strange sensation in her stomach.
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Healthcare

Paying It Forward: After Giving Birth Prematurely, This Mother Left Her Job To Care For Babies In Need

Liza Smith
June 06, 2018
In 2012, Liz Kogler was pregnant with her first child and was not having the easiest pregnancy. Diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum — a pregnancy complication that comes with severe nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and dehydration — Kogler had to take multiple trips to the hospital for medications and intravenous fluids. But these were all minor inconveniences compared with what was about to come.
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Arriving Early: 12 Weeks Premature. 45 Days In The NICU. 1 Family’s Story.

Liza Smith
November 29, 2017
In September 2017, Natalie Ray was 28 weeks pregnant with her second child when she felt a pain beneath her rib cage. She assumed it was indigestion, but when it kept her up all night, she called her doctor. She was told to come immediately into Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Maryland. When she got there, the doctors ran a series of tests and found that her liver was in distress.
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