‘There is hope’: Teen celebrates 16th birthday with Colorado Springs NICU staff who cared for him as a newborn

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Tuesday morning, staff at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Francis Hospital celebrated the 16th birthday of one of their former patients.

Jaden Boncler was born prematurely and spent nearly six months in the NICU in 2010, and this year, for his 16th birthday, Boncler wanted to come back and meet the team that saved his life.

Boncler’s mother, Lisa Ford, said pregnancy complications began at 16.5 weeks when her water broke, and at around 23 to 24 weeks, an emergency C-section was performed after she became septic…

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