November 11, 2024 5:11 pm
An emotional and hopeful story that of Rachel and Hayden who were both born prematurely in a hospital in Michigan and who, thanks to the friendship between their mothers, born in the ward, got married 28 years later.
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There are experiences, such as that of neonatal intensive care, that unite families, who find themselves hopefully observing their baby from behind the glass of an incubator.
Walking through the corridors are parents of children who are struggling to stay alive after an earlier-than-expected birth and they gather strength, are moved and fight together, to make a moment that should have been the happiest of their lives a little less hard. .
Right among those corridors they met, 28 years ago, Sherry Krambeck and Audra Sackey, the mothers of two babies born prematurely, Rachel, Sherry’s daughter born at 31 weeks of gestation and Hayden, Audra’s son who was born it weighed just half a kilo.
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Side by side the little ones they fought to stay alivewho knows if someone had told their mothers that 28 years later the two would marryhow they would react.
The two mothers who are friends and mothers-in-law
The two mothers Sherry Krambeck and Audra Sackey say in an interview carried out by the Core Well Health Hospital in Michigan that they immediately got in tune, an inevitable situation when you experience the same worries and the same joys, when, they say, you wake up at dawn, they wear shirts, cap and shoes and you go down to the intensive care unit with your children.
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The two little ones Rachel and Hayden, born a few days apart, but both premature, in the same hospital, little by little, thanks to the constant care of the facility team they grew up and left the hospital. Although little Rachel left the facility, some time after her first friend, due to some complications that led her to undergo delicate brain surgery.
The two mothers, despite the physical distance, they never stopped hearing each otheri.e. to help each other in managing the children, organizing play times for the little ones and telling each other about their children’s progress.
Between 2007 and 2014, however, the move of little Rachel and her mother to another state led to the two families not to see each other for longuntil Hayden’s mom contacted Rachel to ask if she wanted to accompany your son to the prom. The two began to feel and get to know each other better and better, until Rachel reached Michigan to attend her childhood friend’s prom.
The girl, however, while preparing for the dance, fainted due to complications inherited from childhood and was hospitalized. As she tells it to News Heraldwrote a message to his friend saying: “Sorry, I’m in the hospital, I won’t be at the prom.”.
Rachel and Hayden in hospital on the day of the prom (Credits: Instagram profile @corewellhealth)
The boy joined her in the hospital, and their first “second date” was the security of both of them be made for each other. It was just the beginning of a love story that culminated with their wedding last September 7th.
In the NICU with the wedding clothes
Grateful to the neonatal intensive care unit that not only gave them life again, but also allowed them to find love, the two have posed among the hospital corridors in ceremonial attirea, observing the little hospitalized children, thanking the healthcare workers and also that nurse who, way back in 1996, had lovingly taken care of them and their mothers.
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As companions in the aisle, cheering for their children, the two women found themselves on the sides of the same aisle applauding the triumph of an immense lovecapable of attenuating the scars that neonatal intensive care brings with it.
