Thank God for this misunderstanding! 1 year old Jaslyn Barnett is alive today because before she was born doctors thought she was at 23 weeks. Had the doctors known then that she was only at 22 weeks, according to Jaslyn’s mother, they would have done little to help her:

“So because the ultrasound came back that I was actually a week further along than I was, that’s what helped, that’s what jump-started the whole thing, so now that she was out, and they were doing everything they could to help her survive.”

Jaslyn is not the first baby to survive being born prior to 23 weeks. In 2007, Amillia Taylor became the tiniest baby born after only 21 weeks and six days in her mother’s womb