1-Pound Super Premature Baby Survives After Being Placed In Sandwich Bag

A baby in North Yorkshire, England was placed inside a see-through sandwich bag and suffered several complications after she was born nearly four months before her due date.

Vanessa Findlay, 32, was 26 weeks into her pregnancy when she gave birth to her daughter, Faith Findlay, via emergency cesarean section at James Cook University Hospital in September of 2020, Yahoo News reported.

The newborn, who weighed around 1 pound and 15 ounces at the time, was born 15 weeks prematurely and had to be placed in a see-through sandwich bag to mimic the womb and prevent her body temperature from dropping.

Faith then stayed in intensive care, where she battled a hole in her heart as well as a brain lesion — a spot on the brain that could indicate brain damage.

Doctors told Vanessa and her husband, Kurt, also 32, that they were unsure if their newborn would make it.

However, Faith survived the ordeal and left the hospital in December after spending 79 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. She is now doing well at home.

The infant still has a hole in her heart even after more than a year since leaving the hospital, but doctors are hoping it will close up on its own.

"She’s still quite a tiny one-year-old but she’s a little fighter. I’m so happy that she is healthy and thriving," Vanessa, a waitress from Catterick, said.

Vanessa first learned she was pregnant with Faith in May 2020 when Kurt, who is a lance corporal in the army, was away in Afghanistan.

The mother of three suffered a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum during Faith's pregnancy, which resulted in her constantly vomiting and experiencing nausea.

It caused Vanessa to go in and out of the hospital as she became dehydrated to the point her veins collapsed.

Additionally, she was deemed high risk as she had complications and lost pregnancies before.

"It was such a horrible pregnancy and I was always scared I was going to lose her," the mother recalled.

Vanessa also had to undergo emergency surgery after medics discovered she had little to no cervix left. The couple officially met their child after the surgery.

"She was just so tiny with all of these wires around her. Amazingly she pulled through and came home," Vanessa said.

"I don’t think I slept a wink that first night she was back," she added.