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Baby Meadow
Coverage of Baby Meadow in the Nexus archive.
- East Bay hospital's tiniest preemie goes home after nearly 6 months in the NICU
Baby Meadow, the hospital's tiniest surviving micro-preemie ever, has been discharged from John Muir's Walnut Creek Medical Center after spending nearly six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Despite some doctors believing she had no chance of survival, the baby girl finally went home.
- ‘Magic baby': Smallest surviving baby born at a Walnut Creek hospital goes home
Baby Meadow, the smallest surviving baby born at John Muir Health’s Walnut Creek Medical Center, finally went home with her family after a difficult start. Weighing just 350 grams and having had health issues in utero, she was reportedly given a fighting chance by doctors at John Muir Health. Her mother plans to take Meadow camping as one of their first activities together.