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After 113 days in the NICU, this 1-pound preemie overcomes all odds to become a flourishing toddler. How he seems now, three years later

Wyatt Brenner was born as a premature baby weighing barely one pound eight ounces. He had internal bleeding, an abscess in his stomach, and a perforated intestine after a difficult birth. As a result, Wyatt was taken to a NICU more than an hour away for surgery. Wyatt and his family spent 113 days in the NICU healing and growing before being allowed to return home.

«My husband was bouncing back and forth between McAlester and Tulsa, working and caring for the house/dogs, and being at the hospital with Wyatt and me.» I tried to leave the hospital as little as possible. «Being at St. Francis in Tulsa was the greatest blessing because it had the best of the best NICU team,» Wyatt’s mother, Jessica, tells Love What Matters. Read the full story here ▶