Overview
- Nearly six months after his June birth, Chance remains in the NICU with underdeveloped lungs and “will not be coming home soon,” according to a Nov. 24 GoFundMe update.
- He now weighs about 11 pounds and will be moved to another hospital for specialized treatment; the family did not name the facility.
- Chance has been cared for in the NICU at Atlanta’s Northside Hospital since he was delivered at about 1 pound, 13 ounces by emergency C‑section on June 13.
- His mother, Adriana Smith, 31, was declared brain-dead in February while early in pregnancy and was kept on life support until delivery; she died later in June.
- The family says hospital staff told them Georgia’s heartbeat law required maintaining life support, while the state attorney general’s office says the law does not mandate that action.