A Manatee County couple welcomes home their daughter, who was born significantly premature after a nine-month hospital stay.

Jasmyne Gambrah-Silgnena and her husband, Jeff, brought home their baby girl in late September.

She spent the past nine months at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg.

She was born at 23 weeks and weighed a little more than one pound.

"It was like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, you know. It's been like 9 months since we've been going back and forth," said Jeff Silgnena.

In September, their daughter, Snoh, graduated from the hospital's NICU. She sported a cap and gown for the occasion.

"Everything that I thought mattered no longer matters. This is my world right here, and her being sick like that really showed me how strong I am,"

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