Woman Who Got Pregnant After 17 Years Reveals How She Defied Doctors To Have Baby

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A few weeks ago, we reported the story of Dana Griffin-Graves, who got pregnant after 17 years of marriage and the reaction of her husband, Arkell, when he heard the great news and how she was is in critical care after she had to give birth to their son at 24 weeks (read here and here).

Now Dana has shared an update on the couple’s Facebook page, she said: “Kaleb Arkell Graves was born yesterday at 10/20/1015 at 1:08 PM. He is tiny in statue but he is a fighter. He is in stable but critical condition.”

Dana also revealed how she had being giving a painful choice to make of saving her life or aborting her baby.

She said: “When I arrived in the intensive care unit over a week ago, they told me in order to save my life, I had to terminate his, My blood pressure was 223/113 but I couldn’t. (sic)

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He was my miracle and I had to give him a fighting chance to make it. Daily I was told how my chances of survival were declining because of my heart functions and chronic blood pressure. With only a 5% chance of survival, Kaleb is here. I’m grateful to God, my wonderful husband Arkell and my amazing family. “