EP43: Prematurity Awareness Month
The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy
Elizabeth Presta
4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
(Trigger Warning - This episode contains sensitive material) Elizabeth, Jade, and Carly aka "The Babes" are spreading the awareness of premature labor and birth this episode with special guest Jess Southern. Jess shares her journey with us of having trouble conceiving and using IVF to finally get pregnant with Lennon, her little girl. She talks about the pregnancy and how she ended up delivering at 27 weeks in a fight for her life and her baby's life. Lennon was in the NICU for 100 days. Jess educates us and inspires us in this heartfelt episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Liz. This is Jade. And this is Carly and you're listening to |
| 0:05.3 | Babe and baby. Yeah. Okay, so you guys were doing something a little bit different this week. I |
| 0:15.1 | know we usually talk at the very beginning, but we are going to delve right into our topic, |
| 0:20.7 | which is premature awareness. It is premature awareness month and premature awareness day was |
| 0:26.5 | November 17th. So we have a great guest on Jess Payne, Jess Kapine, also known as Jess Southern. |
| 0:35.5 | And we're super excited to have her on and tell her story because it is a amazing miracle of a story. |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah, I think, I mean, I will let her share her story, but I'm pretty sure her daughter was born |
| 0:48.5 | at 27 weeks, which is really early. I know that doctors don't, are they consider a pregnancy |
| 0:56.0 | or a delivery viable at 24 weeks. So if your baby is born at 24 weeks pregnant, that's kind of |
| 1:03.6 | the cutoff of where they are going to intervene and try to save your baby. So I know that each |
| 1:09.3 | week is very important. Like if you can, you know, if you're at 24 weeks, you think you're going to |
| 1:13.7 | go into labor. And if you can prolong it to 27, then obviously the success rate of your baby surviving |
| 1:21.2 | is extremely like higher each week that you are pregnant. But still like 27 weeks is early. |
| 1:27.4 | It's so scary. Yeah. It looked like her daughter, Lenin, I looked at one of her Instagram photos. |
| 1:34.6 | She had posted a picture of her daughter on her chest at one month. And it said that she had |
| 1:39.8 | gained a pound. And so at that point, she was two pounds, 10 ounces, which means at birth, she was |
| 1:44.3 | one pound, 10 ounces. She was so small. And I know she'll tell us this as well. But it said that |
| 1:52.8 | she couldn't see her baby for 24 hours after she gave birth. So can you imagine like, you get |
| 1:59.0 | birthed to your child and then they, and then they take her from you for 24 hours and you don't |
| 2:03.8 | get to see her or touch her or speak to her or anything. Oh, it's like my nightmare. That's got to |
| 2:11.1 | be the longest 24 hours of your life completely. Was and did you have some statistics? I can't talk |
| 2:20.4 | this morning. I was just going to kind of go on what Jade was saying. But I guess there's about 20 |
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