With a long pregnancy journey full of missed milestones and slow growth, at 26 weeks little Petra only had a 20 per cent chance of making it through delivery, and then only a 20 per cent chance of making it through her time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Despite every odd, when Petra’s parents decided to give her every chance to grow, Children’s Hospital stood by them every step of the way.
Your support of events like Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie Week means Children’s NICU has the expertise and equipment to provide the best possible care for these babies, even in hard moments.
When you buy a smile cookie, you help make it possible for vulnerable infants like Petra to have leading-edge equipment, including Bili Lights, which provide phototherapy to combat jaundice, or Incubators that keep them warm and safe so they can grow stronger.
When you buy a smile cookie, you help ensure that Petra, and her parents, can have Kangaroo chair time – moments for skin-to-skin contact that helps calm babies and speed up their healing.
Today, Petra is officially one year and two days old! She is a little adventurer, crawling everywhere and getting into mischief!
When you buy a smile cookie, you help create more moments of hope and possibility for the one thousand babies each year who need our NICU. You can give families like Petra’s more chances to smile!
