ROCKVILLE CENTRE, Long Island (WABC) — She came into this world more than three months earlier than expected, and now a “micro-preemie” on Long Island is finally heading home.
Trinity Alexandria Rose weighed less than two pounds when she was born in April, and on Wednesday, she was discharged from the NICU at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital, weighing a healthy 11.5 pounds.
It takes a village, but in this case, more like an army, and they enjoyed every minute of this, because it was a rollercoaster for little Alexandria Rose, and her parents, Latashia and David, from Freeport.
“And here we are 146 days later, and we’re going home,” Latashia Morris said.
They’re grateful to the whole team of doctors and NICU nurses here at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, who provided way more than medical care… they delivered hope, because Alexandria Rose was born at just 1 pound, 14 ounces. They called her a “micro-preemie.”
“But the nurses and the doctors were on me like, ‘nope, we’re not going down to that dark place, like she’s going to be OK, we got you, we got her.’ And they really did,” Morris said.
“I was scared. I was scared but happy, especially with how she came out,” said Trinity’s father David Taylor.
Alexandria Rose was delivered while she was still in the embryonic sack.
“That’s a technique I use, sometimes very small babies get traumatized as they come out so it’s best if you keep the bag in tact,” said Mercy Hospital OB-GYN, Dr. Jahanshah Seraji.
From that point on, they said the first two weeks were critical.
“She had some lung problems, she had some eye problems, and she had some heart problems,” said Mercy Hospital Neonatology Director, Dr. Swarna Devarajan.
But now, Alexandria Rose is healthy after her record-breaking stay of nearly five months.
“It’s very difficult because they’re here so long,” said NICU nurse Lisa Pino. “We become attached to them, so when they have a setback, we have a setback.”
Alexandria Rose will be back here in just two weeks for her first checkup, and after that, every two months until her second birthday. But she’s reached 11 pounds, 8.5 ounces now.
Her favorite song, not surprisingly, is “Hakuna Matata.”
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