DENVER (KDVR) — Two parents in Colorado had to resuscitate their baby twice, just days after coming home from the NICU, according to a press release from HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s Hospital.
Baby Hunter was born through an emergency C-section due to preeclampsia after only 34 weeks, said the release.
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He was diagnosed with a rare congenital condition, Tracheoesophageal Fistula and Esophageal Atresia, which affects the esophagus and trachea, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Within 24 hours of his birth, he was taken to HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s, which is the only Level IV NICU in the region.
Hunter would spend the next 150 days in the NICU, along with his parents, who were learning critical training in the hospital’s HomewardBound NICU program…