In the image, Briony flashed a smile for the camera while her young son fed.
Briony also shared a picture moments after Sonny s birth as she cradled him on her chest while lying in a hospital bed following her labour.
Milestone moments: The yoga instructor, who welcomed her son prematurely, asked her followers which photographs they would like her to share on the page
She wrote: My amazing midwife actually got videos/photos of him being born and I can t help but look back at them most days. It helps me process just how miraculous the human body is. But there definitely TMI so this is the first suitable photo. [sic]
A new neonatal ward allowed Naphtal to survive and give others hope
Posted on Dec 21, 2020 Evaline Ngigie, PIH midwife mentor at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, holds Naphtal during the hospital s celebration of World Prematurity Day.
Photo by Doug Miller / PIH.
Fourteen weeks ahead of his due date, Naphtal was unexpectedly delivered on a rural farm on the edge of Kono District, Sierra Leone, miles away from any health facility. He and his mother, who was in dire condition after a complicated, unattended birth, were rushed by ambulance to Koidu Government Hospital, Kono’s only hospital. None of the family’s neighbors, who had scrambled to call for help, thought that Naphtal would survive: He weighed less than two pounds, and without intensive, specialized neonatal care care that had never existed in the rural, impoverished district, even at the highest-level health facility loss seemed certain.