A baby born at just 23 weeks, more than 5,000 miles away from home, has finally gone home after 172 days in hospital.
Last October, Afua was in the US for a cousin’s wedding. She was also 23 weeks pregnant and 5,000 miles from her home in Ghana. Only three days into her trip, though, she began to feel unwell and had to be taken to the hospital. To everyone’s astonishment, she was already in labour and had to be transferred to a specialist neonatal care hospital.
When her baby, Akosua, was born, she weighed just 1lb 1oz. Because she was born so prematurely, baby Akosua had to fight to survive from the beginning. But from having pneumonia to being reintubated several times, she never gave up.
