Have faith that all will be well with your wife and child. We pray that God will protect your wife and unborn child during this scary time, both before and after his birth. Make him perfect in every way and guide him to a long and healthy life. We ask this in God’s name, if it be his will. Amen.

As a retired OB nurse, I have seen many babies survive even earlier births. It is often a rough road with ups and downs. My strongest advise is for your wife to provide colostrum and breast milk as opposed to formula to your child. Insist that the staff obtain a breast pump for her and start pumping within 2 hours of birth, pumping every 2-3 hours during the day and 3 hours at night. Do not let staff deter you by saying, “she needs her rest.” Double pumping for 15 minutes is not to time consuming and it could be a matter of survival. Do NOT allow the NICU to give one drop of formula. One feeding of formula can effect the gut bacteria and effect your child’s health for life. Also insist you be allowed to do as much skin to skin time as possible, it stabilizes blood sugar, temperature, and helps colonize good bacteria. Also it helps with bonding both parents and child (fathers can do skin to skin too) and it helps to de stress your vulnerable child.