Eliyanah Brusoe began celebrating her first birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at the same place where she came into the world amidst great difficulty for both her and her mother.
The Orange Park Medical Center welcomed mother and daughter back with a blood drive held in the baby’s name on the birthday.
Eliyanah was born 12 weeks early and spent the next seven weeks of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit until she could be released. She weighed only 2 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.
The mother, Melissa, also had a rough time with the delivery.
“She was in the OR [operating room] for an emergency c-section, and then she started to have complications where she started to bleed out,” said Christy Love, an ICU registered nurse. “Mass transfusion protocol; she had over 30 units of blood. Baby went to NICU, and mom had to come to our trauma ICU.”
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