A pregnant mother decided to give birth to her son three months prematurely after not feeling him move for two days. Her quick decision saved the baby’s life.
After Jordyn Smith, 30, couldn’t feel her baby son, Jay, move inside her over a weekend, she rushed to the Pomona Valley Hospital, California, to get checked out.
Doctors discovered the baby was in distress because his heartbeat was faint and asked Jordyn and her husband, Eric, 32, to make a decision. They said they could perform an emergency C-section, but at 26 weeks, the baby was so small he’d only have an eight percent chance of survival, or they could let him grow bigger, which would render his chances of survival even smaller….