mom of preemie who again domestic: "I by no means doubted"

Megan Smith waited five months for the risk to go home with E'layah, her toddler woman, reports CBS information correspondent Mark Strassmann.

"We truely were given to peer the man or women formed outdoor of the womb," Smith said.

Smith and her fiance, Eric Pegues, have been pleased once they discovered she become pregnant, but early on they may see this become no longer going to be smooth.

slightly 6th months in, high blood pressure had almost given Smith a stroke twice. E'layah stopped growing internal her, and medical doctors had problem locating a fetal heartbeat. Megan wished an emergency C-phase.

E'layah changed into born September 23, 2015, 14 weeks early. She weighed 10 ounces, and head to toe, measured 10 inches lengthy.

"She turned into tiny. the dimensions of a small kitten, or smaller, perhaps like a infant fowl," neonatologist Dr. Andrew Herman stated.

Herman stated E'layah become born 1/2 the dimensions of the smallest premature babies at Levine kid's health facility in Charlotte.

"The hazard turned into that she very well ought to die. as long as there's wish, i'd awareness at the hope," Herman stated he instructed the parents.

but desire regarded like a stretch. much less than one percentage of babies inside the U.S. are born as early as E'layah. Her global for weeks become an incubator, a respirator and a sequence of challenges medically, technically and emotionally.

"None of her organs are working as they need to. ... Her skin changed into one cellular layer thick, like the bottom of a blister," Herman said.

Even taking a blood sample turned into risky, as E'layah turned into born with less than an oz. of it in her frame.

"because she was so small, she clearly became accomplishing the limits of our technology. So we needed to sit down and get creative about our methods to many things," Herman said.

One night time her heart rate plummeted. CPR brought her returned to lifestyles. She left the health center, six weeks after her original due date, weighing 5 kilos, eight oz -- almost 9 instances her birth weight.

"I by no means doubted. Oh, no," Smith said. "I refused to put doubt in there. Mmm mmm. She was here for a cause, and the whole thing occurs for a reason."

Tiny E'layah turned into born with a massive coronary heart.

"I had desire, religion, prayer. I had the entirety. there has been absolute confidence in my mind that they couldn't do what they had to do to make my baby stay," Smith stated.

Herman said E'layah suggests no symptoms of developmental troubles.

"i'm nonetheless in awe of her and awe of her dad and mom and awe of the team," Herman stated.

"I fought for her to stay, and he or she fought to live," Smith said.

Now she's sitting at home conserving her child.

"it's simply joy. i like it. Like I sooner or later have my child home," Smith stated.

E'layah has more than lived up to her middle name: faith.