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Woman has baby 4 months prematurely
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AN American woman who unexpectedly gave birth on a cruise ship months before her due date said she wrapped towels around the 680-gram boy and, with the help of medical staff, managed to keep him alive until the ship reached port.
Emily Morgan, of Utah, said on Thursday that doctors didn’t expect her son Haiden to live, but thanks to strong lungs, a makeshift incubator and an early arrival in Puerto Rico, the baby made it. He’s now in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Morgan, 28, said the baby was due in December, but her contractions began on August 31 during a Caribbean cruise.
The pregnancy had been uneventful, so she was shocked when the contractions began just past the halfway mark.
She and her husband, however, called medical staff when they saw blood. A doctor aboard the Royal Caribbean ship told her she couldn’t give birth because they were still 14 hours from the nearest port in Puerto Rico.
“I knew the baby was coming,” she said.
After the delivery, she said the doctors told her she had miscarried and she should get some rest, but she insisted on seeing the baby. About 45 minutes later, medical staff said the baby had survived but wasn’t expected to live long.
“I had felt him kicking. I felt the process of him getting bigger,” she said. “I said: ‘I’m going to see him, I don’t care if he’s alive or if he’s dead.’”
“He was crying, like a little feeble cry,” she said. Along with his pink coloring, it was a sign his lungs were strong.
Meanwhile, the boat arrived in Puerto Rico two hours early.
It was none too soon — black spots were starting to appear on Haiden’s fingers, indicating his circulation was starting to fade.
Ambulances rushed the family to a hospital, and they were transferred to a children’s hospital in Miami a few days later.
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