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Dia Mirza Details Life-Threatening Pregnancy Ordeal and Son’s Premature ICU Battle

She says an appendix surgery triggered a bacterial infection that nearly led to sepsis.

Dia Mirza talked about her scary, complicated pregnancy at 39.
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Overview

  • Mirza underwent appendix surgery in her fifth month and subsequently developed an acute bacterial infection.
  • Doctors delivered baby Avyaan early after identifying placental hemorrhage and rising sepsis risk.
  • Born weighing just 810 grams, Avyaan spent two months in the ICU and had life-saving surgery 36 hours after birth.
  • Mirza was on IV antibiotics and was not permitted to hold her son until he reached 2.5 kilograms.
  • A second 3–4 hour surgery at 3.5 kilograms corrected his exposed stoma.