Tue Jan 4, 2022 – 4:33 pm ESTTue Jan 4, 2022 – 4:43 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A baby girl born at only 22 weeks in April surpassed doctors’ expectations and survived to make it home in time for the holidays, prompting one physician to call her a “miraculous” case.
Baby Jimena “JC” Macias, born weighing only 1 pound, 9 ounces, was expected to have a less than 50% chance of survival after she was born before 24 weeks, which is now considered the general age of viability.
In fact, 22 weeks is generally considered the earliest gestational age at which babies can survive outside the womb, although even that standard may be shifting, as world records for earliest born babies to survive premature birth were set in 2020 at 21 weeks and two days and then 21 weeks and a day.
“On day one, day two, day 30 … I didn’t think it would be possible to spend the holidays together,” JC’s mother, Juana Gallegos, told KHOU 11. “God had other plans.”
When Gallegos found herself in labor almost five months early, she said doctors told her they “weren’t going to be able to resuscitate her or be able to
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