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2-month-old in hospital with COVID-19 who needed life support could go home soon


{p}Fighting for her life is pretty much all Stevie Rayne Caywood knows how to do, and Jenny, her mother, said she is close to finally going home. (KUTV){/p}

Fighting for her life is pretty much all Stevie Rayne Caywood knows how to do, and Jenny, her mother, said she is close to finally going home. (KUTV)

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A 2-month-old baby girl has spent more time in the hospital than at home during her short life.

Stevie Rayne Caywood is at Primary Children’s Hospital, where she's been for about a week.

“It's pretty indescribable, the whole adoption process was pretty amazing,” said Jenny Fowler, Stevie’s mother.

Jenny and her husband adopted Stevie. They drove to Texas to pick her up and brought her back to Utah.

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Stevie was born premature on Nov. 12, 2021, and has suffered several health issues.

“It’s just been an emotional rollercoaster of excitement and fear and everything,” Jenny said.

Last Monday, while at home, Stevie stopped breathing.

“She just continued to look more and more grey, like, that's the only color. It wasn't blue — she looked really life-less, and I actually thought she was gone,” Jenny said.

Once at the hospital, Stevie tested positive for COVID-19.

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Jenny said she has an underlying diaphragm issue that could have caused her breathing to stop, but said the doctors believe COVID-19 may have caused it.

“They've done a ton of tests on her, and they just think it was COVID,” Jenny said.

Stevie’s health slowly declined to the point she needed a life-support machine to keep her alive for four days.

“We weren’t sure if she was going to make it, and she's not on it anymore, but it was really scary on Wednesday. We thought we were going to say goodbye to her,” Jenny said.

Fighting for her life is pretty much all Stevie knows how to do, and Jenny said she is close to finally going home.

“She's a fighter," Jenny added. "I'm going to tell her she's so strong, and I'm never going to forget this experience."

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