Little Stella Mowrey was on a life support machine for five days but made an amazing comeback
Author: Mike Bush (KSDK)
Updated: 12:45 PM CST December 21, 2020
ST. LOUIS — At St. Louis Children's Hospital, there's a lot of good in this good morning.
After three months in the neonatal intensive care unit, little Stella Mowrey is checking out.
"We're so excited that we get to go home," said her dad Shawn Mowrey.
It's a four-hour drive back to their house in Kansas City. But that's a short distance considering how far they've come.
Stella was born with CDH, congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
"What it means is that during fetal development, the diaphragm for some genetic reasons that we don't completely understand does not close all the way," explained Dr. Tasnim Najaf.