Awesome Asher: 116 days in intensive care
KAMLOOPS — A local woman was faced with the terrifying possibility of losing her child when she went into labour at only 23 weeks.
Vanessa Antoine gave birth to her second child, Asher, nearly 4 months premature. Today, Dec. 2, mother and baby returned to Royal Inland Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, but this time there were no tubes or monitors attached to baby Asher.
“It’s a little nerve wracking,” Antoine said of being back in the NICU. “I still remember walking in, and taking a deep breath, and going, ‘what are they going to tell me about my son today?’”