Kylee K.
Kylee came into the world weighing only 13.5 ounces. "When they brought her out, she was in the isolette, covered in oil to moisten her skin," her father, Glenn remembers. "She was a little bigger than a coke can." What Kylee didn't have in size, she made up for in spirit. Glenn says his baby girl was born kicking and screaming. "I could tell right away her personality - she's a fighter," he said.
She is the smallest baby that has survived in Shands Jacksonville's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and it is believed that Kylee is the third-smallest baby in North America to live.
Without the help of a special incubator, purchased with funds raised by the Children's Miracle Network, Kylee may not have made it. "If that equipment had not been bought, whether it be by Children's Miracle Network, or anybody else, my daughter would not be here," said Jamie, Kylee's mother. "That is something I fully believe."
After spending four months by Kylee's side in the Shands NICU, Jamie and Glenn were finally able to bring their daughter home in May 2004. Kylee does have some permanent lung damage, but Jamie says doctors don't expect any serious long-term effects from her premature birth.