An earnest father & a calm, quiet mother made all the difference.

One of my favorite patients from my early years in Austin was a little girl named Jesse, who was delivered at 28 weeks gestation to highly educated parents, a psychologist mother and an anesthesiologist father. Her mother had prematurely ruptured her membranes, or PROM, at 18 weeks gestation, and the rupture did not seal over. Her mother lay in bed in o…