Live Action News A one-year-old boy in Australia has been astounding doctors from the moment he was born prematurely at 23 weeks. Never expected to survive, Isaiah is now taking his first steps and giving hope to other families.
Isaiah’s mother Jillian Martin’s water broke when she was only 20 weeks pregnant. Doctors took her to the stillborn ward, reported ABC, because they didn’t expect her baby to survive. “They said my son was going to be stillborn, because you’ve got about a 98 per cent chance of going into labour after your water breaks,” she said.
She and her partner Dan Rhodes “were devastated” by this news, but Martin didn’t go into labor as doctors has predicted. She was able to carry Isaiah for three more weeks, giving him the time he needed to get stronger. “I still had a bit of fluid left, albeit on the lower side of normal,” she explained. “As they carried out more checks, the baby’s heartbeat was fine.”…
