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.