{"id":7938,"date":"2025-12-08T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:50:13","slug":"baby-born-weighing-15-ounces-goes-home-after-6-month-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=7938","title":{"rendered":"Baby born weighing 15 ounces goes home after 6 month fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KYTX) &#8211; A baby who was born weighing just 15 ounces went home after a six-month fight for her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was so scary, because the doctor was like, \u2018I can\u2019t hear the heartbeat. The baby\u2019s not measuring what she\u2019s supposed to measure,\u2019\u201d Labreshia Howard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is a terrifying comment for any mother to hear, and Addisyn weighed just 15 ounces when she was born, making her the tiniest baby ever cared for at UT Health East Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NICU Clinical Manager Bonnie Bearden said Addisyn was smaller than a can of Coke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis was her diaper when she was born, and it probably was actually too big for her when she was first born, because these only go to about a pound, and she was less than that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pregnancy was smooth until the 24-week checkup, just days after the gender reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Doctors admitted Howard, hoping to keep Addisyn growing in the womb as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAfter the third day, they was like, \u2018OK, we\u2019re delivering.\u2019 It was just really scary, a very scary experience,\u201d Howard said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7939\" src=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0835-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0835-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0835-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0835-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0835.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER, Texas (KYTX) &#8211; A baby who was born weighing just 15 ounces went home after a six-month fight for her life. \u201cIt was so scary, because the doctor was like, \u2018I can\u2019t hear&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}