Caught this story via Sister Toldjah:
"'(Baby Amillia) showed us early on that she was a fighter and wanted to be here,' said Dr. Paul Fassbach, a neonatologist.
"Amillia was born Oct. 24, 2006. She was the world’s fourth-smallest baby, weighing 284 grams (just under 10 ounces) when she was born. She was just 9.5 inches long — barely longer than a ballpoint pen.
"'We’ve never even really resuscitated babies this small right,' (Dr. Paul) Fassbach said. 'Now, the recommendations for the American Academy of Pediatrics is that we can resuscitate babies that are 23 weeks or by birth weight over 400 grams. So, babies were considered non viable or too immature to survive outside the uterus if they were born earlier than that.
"Doctors said that at 23 weeks old, their survival rate is 30 percent. Now, after nearly four months at Baptist’s Children’s Hospital neonatal intensive care unit, baby Amillia will be going home healthy and thriving."
UPDATE (via Drudge): It looks as if the baby isn't going home just yet.
In an age where abortions can be legally mandated, this story is yet another example of why abortion is wrong. On ALL levels.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, this baby shouldn't have been resuscitated. Now she's almost ready to go home.
Proof that miracles do happen.
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Low Birth Weight Baby Development Problems Raise Ethical Question
Should radical measures be employed to save low birth weight premature infants?
Link:
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002912.html
Asthma, cerebral palsy, vision and hearing disorders, low I.Q., poor school performance and social difficulties are among the problems described in The Journal of the American Medical Association by doctors at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland. Such disabilities were far more common in the children born prematurely than in normal-weight children from similar backgrounds. For example, 38 percent of those born prematurely had I.Q.'s below 85, as opposed to 14 percent of the normal-weight children. Among the premature, 21 percent had asthma, compared with 9 percent of those with normal weight.
The babies looked at in this study weighted 2.2 lbs or less at birth.
A look at 219 such children born between 1992 and 1995 found 14 percent had developed cerebral palsy, 21 percent had asthma, 38 percent had an IQ under the threshold denoting retardation, 47 percent had poor motor skills, 10 percent had very poor eyesight, and roughly two-thirds were characterized as having "poor adaptive functioning" and "functional limitations," the study said.
What I don't like is that instead of looking at these types of studies and trying to determine the best ways to help people, many folks see these studies and see justification for ending their lives.
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