Although it's something that medical teams are better at dealing with than in decades past, it can still be a scary time when a baby is born prematurely.
Sometimes this is simply the result of nature moving things along before anyone is ready, but it's also possible for a pregnancy to be high-risk enough to make a premature birth the only option.
In either case, it can be easy for the situation to seem hopeless if this birth happens early enough. But as we've seen before and are about to see again, even the most discouraging odds can be beaten.
And recently, both one mom and her new baby have beaten some long ones.
