FORT WORTH, Texas — Annie Babock was in trouble. The baby she was carrying had been diagnosed with intrauterine growth restriction and Annie, her pregnancy at just 24 weeks gestation, diagnosed with preeclampsia and placental abruption.

Her doctors in Bedford delivered a sentence she will never forget.

"They said we can either deliver here and do comfort care and let the baby pass, or go to Texas Health in Fort Worth and do a trial of life."

A "trial of life" meant a helicopter ambulance ride to Fort Worth and then an emergency C-section to find out if the baby was healthy enough, and big enough, to survive.

Nora Babcock was born March 10. She weighed 13.1 ounces and was just 10.5 inches long - roughly the size of a soda can. Rushed into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Texas Health

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