Preemie Twin Who Lost Her Brother at Birth Survives, Heads Home After 408 Days in Hospital
A premature baby girl who lost her twin brother just hours after being born has proved to be a fighter. Having survived, she’s heading home with her mom and dad after 14 months in the hospitals.
Baby Ada Laurel Mesnard weighed just 1 pound (approx. 0.45 kg) when, at just 23 weeks, she was delivered at New York’s Vassar Brothers Medical Center in February 2020. Her brother, Weston, passed away 16 hours after birth.
On April 12, Ada was discharged from Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla and headed home to Poughkeepsie for the very first time.
Surviving preemie twin released after 14 months at NY hospitals
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A girl born at 23 weeks and weighing just 1 pound at birth went home for the first time Monday after 14 months at New York hospitals.
Blythedale Children s Hospital in Valhalla said a bittersweet goodbye to Ada Mesnard, of Poughkeepsie, who beat the odds and fought to live.
She and her late twin brother, Weston, were born extremely premature in February of 2020 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center.
Tragically, Weston died hours after birth, but Ada was a survivor. We re going to set her up in her little crib with all the toys that she is familiar with and just talk to her, mom and dad there, and just get her comfortable, mom Laurena Mesnard said.