Special Delivery: Baby ER
Early Delivery, Early Problems
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Candace is just four weeks from her due date when a routine doctor''s visit lands her in the hospital. Candace is having contractions and suffers from dangerously high blood pressure, a risk for both she and her unborn child. Candace's condition continues to deteriorate, and doctors quickly deliver Myan, a seemingly healthy baby boy, but mere moments later, Baby Myan stops breathing and is rushed to the SPECIAL DELIVERY: BABY E.R., intubated, put on a ventilator, and fitted with an IV for medication. Tense days pass in the SPECIAL DELIVERY: BABY E.R. as Baby Myan develops pneumonia and doctors fight to stabilize his fragile health. Carrie is expecting her sixth child when she learns that, once again, she has gestational diabetes, a condition which caused her last pregnancy to end in tragedy. Doctors struggle to induce Carrie's labor, but after more than two days, the risk to the baby forces an emergency c-section. Baby girl Nevaeh is delivered, but when her blood sugar plummets, she is taken straight to the SPECIAL DELIVERY: BABY E.R.