Couple holds wedding in NICU with premature daughter

Rubia Ferreira and Tyler Campbell’s newborn daughter is expected to spend months at the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, so her parents decided to get married beside her bed in the hospital, according to People.

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Ms. Ferreira was diagnosed with hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count, or HELLP syndrome before the 24th week of pregnancy and was forced to undergo an emergency cesarean section. The couple planned to have a beachside wedding in Okinawa, Japan, but after Ms. Ferreira saw a video of a couple getting married in a hospital, she decided they would abandon their destination wedding for the halls of the NICU.

“We asked our nurse liaison, and she was all about it,” Mr. Campbell told People. “That was about two weeks before Valentine’s Day, and she thought it would be perfect if that was our wedding day.”

The couple was married Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, next to their daughter Kaelin. Neonatologist Waldemar Carlo, MD, walked Ms. Ferreira down the aisle.

“All the nurses that took care of Kaelin were there, the doctors, everyone,” Mr. Campbell told People. “There were tears from one end of the hospital to the other. We’re going to tell her all about how much love was in the room at that time.”

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