After Aylianna Switzer’s birth on July 11, friends and family came by the hospital to admire the baby. The visitors often made the same remark: “She looks so perfect!”
“When you hear that,” said Brandon Switzer, Aylianna’s father, “it’s hard.”
Now almost six months old, Aylianna looks healthy and happy. She smiles, kicks, babbles, cries out with powerful lungs. Her appetite is strong, too, and Brandon and Angie Switzer nicknamed their hungry daughter “Milk Monster.”
From the beginning, through, odds against Aylianna’s survival were steep. While in utero, doctors found that she lacks kidneys and a bladder. The recommended course for this so-called “lethal pregnancy”? Induce labor and allow the premature infant to quietly pass away.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times