Baby Born after Mother Killed in Car Crash - “Defying Odds”
By Danell Swim
March 25, 2008
Not long after her mom died in January, Baby Shay, no bigger than a fist, lay on her great-grandmother Elmoyne Vance’s chest, listening to her great-grandma’s heartbeat.
For several hours the two lay together alone in a room and bonded. Vance, at that time, did not know how Shay was going to recover from her emergency delivery by cesarean-section.
But today, Baby Shay has not only survived a Dec. 30 car crash from which doctors removed her from her dying mom. She’s also off a respirator, and has officially been adopted by another grandfather.
On top of that, she’s big by Baby Shay standards, weighing in at slightly over seven pounds.
“To see that little girl mature, she is a miracle,” Vance said. “It’s a miracle.”
Shalyn Davis, 17, a Twin Falls girl was injured in a Dec. 30 traffic accident near Jerome.
At St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center, an obstetrician, a surgeon, a pediatrician and an ER doctor launched an emergency cesarean section, delivering the baby that had been in Davis’ womb for 6 ½ months. They placed her on an artificial breathing apparatus. Davis was then flown to a Boise hospital, where she died two days later.
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What an amazing story! Still, I have to chuckle at the comment: “She still needs to be fed once every three hours around the clock”
Umm, all newborns feed at LEAST that often, most plenty more often than that.