{"id":13620,"date":"2026-04-07T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13620"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:50:12","slug":"she-weighed-less-than-a-pound-at-birth-and-doctors-thought-she-would-not-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13620","title":{"rendered":"She weighed less than a pound at birth and doctors thought she would not survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Manushi from Rajasthan, India, is called a miracle. She was born by C-section at just 28 weeks after her mother, Seeta, developed severe high blood pressure and the baby wasn\u2019t getting enough blood.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing only 14 ounces at birth, with underdeveloped organs, her survival chances were under 1%. She spent six months in intensive care, on a ventilator and fed through her bloodstream, until she grew strong enough to go home at 5.2 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the odds, Manushi survived and began breathing and feeding on her own. Doctors fought to save her not only to help her live, but also to highlight the value of girl children.<\/p>\n<p>Her story is a powerful reminder of hope and resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Baby Manushi from Rajasthan, India, is called a miracle. She was born by C-section at just 28 weeks after her mother, Seeta, developed severe high <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13620\" title=\"She weighed less than a pound at birth and doctors thought she would not survive\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13622,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions\/13622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}