New Jersey NICU Patient Heads Home After 285 Days – Decades After Her Mother Was Born At Same Hospital

CBS Philadelphia

February 25, 2026

A celebration months in the making unfolded Tuesday for Baby Myla in South Jersey. After spending more than nine months in the neonatal intensive care unit at Virtua Voorhees Hospital, Myla was discharged and headed home with her mother.

"She came at 24 weeks on the dot, she was 1 pound. This was the hardest thing I've ever in my life been through, it's very, very challenging," Myla's mother Chi Obidike said.

Obidike was also born prematurely at the same hospital more than 30 years ago and cared for by some of the same doctors who helped save her daughter's life.

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