Severe prematurity is climbing to alarming numbers and the success rate of keeping these micropreemies alive is rising with ever increasing sophisticated medical technologies. But those who survive physically are emotionally and psychologically at severe risk. Pre- and perinatal traumas, whether caused by nature or human intervention, that remain untreated, continue to assert an insidious power over a child's life during its development in particular and its entire life in general. If society demands technological intervention to keep traumatized micropreemies alive, then it has the responsibility to see to it that the psycho-emotional and mental lives of these children are equally attended to as early as possible. Else, society fails these children at an unimaginable cost to society itself, not to mention the difficulties and severe problems these children and their families face. In presenting my case history, I am illustrating the tyranny of unresolved early trauma during development and beyond. As life is a continuum from conception onwards, each experience, whether positive or negative, becomes a building block toward what a person eventually becomes. Each experience teaches the unborn and born something about life, the world, and itself. When these early lessons are negative, painful, and terror-filled, as traumas are by their very nature, the child responds in kind. Not only will its brain react to survive as best it can, but its body, soul, and mind will become defensive as a strategy to cope and adapt. As set forth in "Born to Live-Part I: Micropreemies in the NICU" (Vol. 13 (2001), No. 4, S. 99-109), trauma in the NICU is pervasive. T here is ample documentation that preemies can develop many aversions and terrors, are continually stressed, and submit to apnea and loss of consciousness often to escape what they can't handle. If these children are not given special and professional therapies early on, they face a future that is unimaginable unless portrayed from the inside out. This case history serves as a sample