ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Jomary Tavarez and Federico Peguero’s lives as parents started in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Orlando Health Winnie Palmer hospital on Mother’s Day.
Their daughter Diana was born prematurely just 9 inches long and weighing 12 ounces, as much as a large apple.“It was surreal she was tiny; she was the tiniest human being I had ever seen; I couldn’t believe that she was still alive,” Tavarez said.Jomary said she gave birth to baby Diana after she suffered pregnancy complications when she was only 20 weeks pregnant.“I had a regular routine appointment and during the sonogram, they discovered that I was dilating, and they admitted me to the hospital and diagnosed me with an incompetent cervix, and I was in.