The Brief
- Baby Nyla, born at just 400 grams, reunited with her Kaiser NICU care team after 218 days in the San Francisco hospital.
- Nyla is one of the smallest babies the team has cared for in recent years.
SAN FRANCISCO – Baby Nyla, born three months premature and weighing just 400 grams – less than a pound – reunited with the medical team who cared for her at Kaiser Permanente’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in San Francisco in an emotional event Thursday.
Nyla is the smallest baby this NICU has cared for in years. She spent about seven months in the hospital before finally going home with her parents, Maria Ottoman-Silas and Dwayne Silas, in April.
“It is just so emotional coming back here,” said Maria Ottoman-Silas. “Since leaving, there was only one day we walked out of this hospital with Nyla. That was the day we brought her home. And for 218 days we left without her, and it was like torture.”…