11-Ounce Preemie Girl Loses Fight to Live
From Times Wire Reports
A baby girl who weighed 11 ounces at birth has died in Oklahoma City, a little more than three days after being delivered three months premature.
Kalea Lyn Allen Richardson had been kept under a humidification tent in the neonatal care unit at Mercy Health Center.
“She was my angel, and she was a fighter,” said her mother, Deidra Allen. “We fought hard for her, and she made it until she couldn’t make it anymore.”
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