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Oct
2007

Toddler Survives Plane Crash

A three-year-old girl is being called a miracle baby after being found alive in the wreck of a plane crash near Golden, B.C., yesterday.
The girl, Kate Williams, was the lone survivor of a crash on Sunday that claimed the lives of her grandfather and his business associate.
Rescue crews found Kate strapped into a child’s car [...]

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9
Oct
2007

Flight Attendant Wins Award For Saving 25 Weeker On Airplane

We covered the amazing story of a baby born 30,000 ft in the air, 15 weeks premature last month.
A flight attendant played an integral part of his survival by clearing his lungs with a straw.
The BBC reported today that Carol Miller (pictured, right), the quick thinking flight attendant, has won a [...]

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9
Oct
2007

34 Week Baby: Pronounced Dead, Then Found Alive

This is the second time I have covered this type of story.
A UK woman went into labor prematurely last week and gave birth to a baby in her home, where paramedics found it and pronounced the newborn dead.
An American Medical Response ambulance arrived at 5:20 a.m., where paramedics found Jessica Gonzalez unconscious [...]

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26
Aug
2007

New York Baby Recovering After 5 Organ Transplant!!

Yesterday I wrote about a 13 month old boy who lived for 120 days with an artificial heart outside his body, today we hear about Elijah Moulton who is recovering in hospital after doctors transplanted five intestinal organs to cure a rare congenital ailment.
Elijah is only 8 months old and his condition has [...]

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25
Aug
2007

Amazing Baby Lives 120 Days With Artificial Heart

Every time I find an amazing baby story I think that it can’t be topped, somehow another amazing baby comes along and shows us that they have what it takes to survive through ANYTHING!
Jack Vellam, 13 months old, left hospital today after undergoing a life-saving treatment in which he was kept alive [...]

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9
Aug
2007

Rare Identical Triplets Born In Austria

A British mom should go out and buy a lottery ticket. She gave birth to an identical set of triplets in Austria yesterday, an occurrence that only happens once in every 200 million births.

Named Zoe, Kim and Amy, the girl triplets were delivered by Caesarean section on Monday in their mother’s 32nd week of [...]

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8
Aug
2007

Micro Preemie Refused To Stop Fighting

This is the amazing story of a baby that refused to give up…
A premature baby girl who had been declared dead began crying in the morgue of a hospital three hours later.

An employee at the hospital in Argentina heard her wailing and called doctors.

The baby, who was born three months premature and weighs barely 1.4 [...]

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14
Jul
2007

UPDATE: Youngest Preemie EVER Thriving and Growing

Amillia Taylor, the world’s youngest surviving preemie, appears in this weeks issue of People Magazine. The micro preemie was born at 21 weeks 6 days gestation, weighing less than 10 ozs and measuring just 9 1/2 inches long.
Her chances of survival were probably 0% at birth due to the fact that [...]

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29
Jun
2007

Baby Zoe Get’s Heart Transplant

Baby Zoe was placed at the top of the European heart transplant list after suffering six heart attacks and now she has a doner.

Zoe Chambers, 18 months, from Hull, had a heart transplant at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital earlier yesterday.

A hospital spokeswoman said the transplant had gone quite well and Zoe was in a stable condition.

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26
Jun
2007

Brothers Each Welcome Twins – Hours Apart

A set of brothers in the UK welcomed two sets of twins, within 72 hours of each other – making it a double celebration for the couples.

After learning that she was expecting twins, Michelle Bootle’s first reaction was to telephone her sister-in-law with the good news.

A few days later, Fiona Bootle returned the compliment – [...]

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Jun
2007

Parents Of Quads Need Help Getting Babies Home To Georgia

A set of quads, born to a surrogate, currently reside at Sutter Memorial Hospital in east Sacramento, but their parents live in Georgia.
As the babies grow bigger and stronger their parents worry about how they are going to get the bunch home.
After trying to conceive for the last [...]

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Jun
2007

Second Morrison Sextuplet Dies

It is very frustrating to report that these babies are no longer with us. I know that they were born WAY too early and that Brianna, their mom, couldn’t keep them in any longer, but deep in your heart you hope that they will be strong and surprise us all by thrieving in their [...]

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