Miracle Baby

Giving birth prematurely is a traumatic event, culminating in a nerve-wracking and overwhelming ordeal for the mother and the family as well. My friend Mary delivered her preemie Jasmine in the Philippines three months earlier because of pregnancy complications.

Jasmine is a perfect name for Mary's bundle of hope and joy, now at 3 months old

She weighed only 650 grams at birth and imagine what her little body went through as she began her fight to survive in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). She spent two weeks of her life in Davao private hospital and was fetched by German doctors for further treatment and care. Hurray for Filipino doctors who took care of her at birth and the German specialists who monitored her development and evaluated her to be in good health.

Mary and daughter Jasmine

Little Jasmine with mary's friends Lalaine and Gwen

Jasmine with soon-to-be playmates