Baby born 22 weeks into pregnancy, weighing just 10-oz survives!

[Syringer]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/11057236/detail.html

Wonderful heart warming story

 

[91TTZ]

Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

 

[Koing]

:thumbsup:

Koing

 

[Savarak]

lol at the quick and easy chicken recipes picture and link on the right side of this story

 

[hzl eyed grl]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

WTF?

EDIT:
Congrats for them. I see they tried in vitro. Wonder why they had to do the c-section? (Unless I missed that.)

 

[Orsorum]

I was born after 22.5 weeks, myself. Weighed more than this baby, I think just over 2 lbs. Makes for an interesting childhood.

 

[NanoStuff]

Good news for now, but I wouldn't want to be blessed with that kid's health problems later in life.

 

[jlbenedict]

Wow..

Considering the chances of survival are only about 25% at that age of gestation.. that is a miracle.

My wife and I just experienced twin losses back in September. Both came about 23 weeks; (son) made it 11 hours in the NICU; (daughter) never made it out of the OR.

Even with the potential problems, by being born a premie, I'd gladly love to be in that father's shoes.

 

[Andy22]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Wow..

Considering the chances of survival are only about 25% at that age of gestation.. that is a miracle.

My wife and I just experienced twin losses back in September. Both came about 23 weeks; (son) made it 11 hours in the NICU; (daughter) never made it out of the OR.

Even with the potential problems, by being born a premie, I'd gladly love to be in that father's shoes.

Wow man..sorry for your losses

 

[ElFenix]

realizing that object is a pen made me like whoa :Q

 

[toolboxolio]

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

WTF?

EDIT:
Congrats for them. I see they tried in vitro. Wonder why they had to do the c-section? (Unless I missed that.)

Queefing out a 10 oz baby would probably kill it.

 

[mercanucaribe]

WOW

 

[Queasy]

My daughter almost came out at 23 weeks and the doctor pretty much guaranteed that she would die. We were actually asked if we wanted to hold her while she died. Those were some of the hardest days for my wife and I. Fortunately, the doctors were able to keep my wife from delivering prematurely and my daughter was born only 4 weeks early and didn't have to spend anytime in the NICU.

My son was born 8 weeks early and spent 3 weeks in the NICU. While there we counted our blessings because we saw painfully tiny babies in there that were born much earlier and would be making much longer stays than our son.

The hospital holds a party every year for the kids that came through that NICU. It really is neat to see all the kids that were in there grow up.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

:roll:

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

WTF?

EDIT:
Congrats for them. I see they tried in vitro. Wonder why they had to do the c-section? (Unless I missed that.)

The woman may have been high risk. My wife is high risk and for our previous pregnancy, she had a cervical cerclage. With a cerclage, its a c-section every time; especially with cervical cerclage in place.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Queasy
My daughter almost came out at 23 weeks and the doctor pretty much guaranteed that she would die. We were actually asked if we wanted to hold her while she died. Those were some of the hardest days for my wife and I. Fortunately, the doctors were able to keep my wife from delivering prematurely and my daughter was born only 4 weeks early and didn't have to spend anytime in the NICU.

My son was born 8 weeks early and spent 3 weeks in the NICU. While there we counted our blessings because we saw painfully tiny babies in there that were born much earlier and would be making much longer stays than our son.

The hospital holds a party every year for the kids that came through that NICU. It really is neat to see all the kids that were in there grow up.

My girlfriend is a NICU nurse and her hospital has a picnic every year for their "graduates".
It's amazing to see how tiny some of these kids were when they were born.

 

[mercanucaribe]

That baby is smaller than some spiders.

 

[Geekbabe]

and at what $$$ cost to bring this child from the petri dish to a crib at home and what dollar cost in special ed services down the road ?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

WTF?

EDIT:
Congrats for them. I see they tried in vitro. Wonder why they had to do the c-section? (Unless I missed that.)

The woman may have been high risk. My wife is high risk and for our previous pregnancy, she had a cervical cerclage. With a cerclage, its a c-section every time; especially with cervical cerclage in place.

Not necessarily. My wife had a cerclage with our daughter. They went in and removed it and we tried a regular birth. Unfortunately, we had other problems with the birth (starting with the anesthesiologist giving my wife the epidural incorrectly which resulted in her upper body going numb instead of the lower half) and we ended up going the c-section route.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
and at what $$$ cost to bring this child from the petri dish to a crib at home and what dollar cost in special ed services down the road ?

Remind me to ask a similar question if you ever get cancer.

 

[yankeesfan]

Can babies that old still be aborted, by law? If so, that's something to think about.

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

WTF?

EDIT:
Congrats for them. I see they tried in vitro. Wonder why they had to do the c-section? (Unless I missed that.)

The woman may have been high risk. My wife is high risk and for our previous pregnancy, she had a cervical cerclage. With a cerclage, its a c-section every time; especially with cervical cerclage in place.

Not necessarily. My wife had a cerclage with our daughter. They went in and removed it and we tried a regular birth. Unfortunately, we had other problems with the birth (starting with the anesthesiologist giving my wife the epidural incorrectly which resulted in her upper body going numb instead of the lower half) and we ended up going the c-section route.

Congratulations. you are definately blessed with good fortune.

My wife has to get an abdominal cerclage next time. Supposedly, those are rarely performed.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/IDfbRWaOCL...20and%20A%20/Q%20and%20A%20Coleman.doc

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Can babies that old still be aborted, by law? If so, that's something to think about.

Let's not. That discussion really belongs in P&N.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Now THERE is an argument for the Pro-Life community!

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Great. Now she can pop out almost 3 babies a year.

WTF?

EDIT:
Congrats for them. I see they tried in vitro. Wonder why they had to do the c-section? (Unless I missed that.)

The woman may have been high risk. My wife is high risk and for our previous pregnancy, she had a cervical cerclage. With a cerclage, its a c-section every time; especially with cervical cerclage in place.

Not necessarily. My wife had a cerclage with our daughter. They went in and removed it and we tried a regular birth. Unfortunately, we had other problems with the birth (starting with the anesthesiologist giving my wife the epidural incorrectly which resulted in her upper body going numb instead of the lower half) and we ended up going the c-section route.

Congratulations. you are definately blessed with good fortune.

My wife has to get an abdominal cerclage next time. Supposedly, those are rarely performed.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/IDfbRWaOCL...20and%20A%20/Q%20and%20A%20Coleman.doc

Heh. The doctors told my wife not to even try to get pregnant again after the difficulties we've had with two pregnancies now. I told her we are going to have to be foster parents or adopt if we want any more kids. I can't put her, myself, or my kids through all that again.