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May
2009

12-Ounce Baby Beats Odds at Pittsburgh Hospital

Against all odds Taylor Maree arrived by C-section on March 12 weighing just 350 grams, which is almost 12 ounces.
The doctors could hardly believe their eyes.

“When she popped out they were really astounded at how tiny she was,” according to the NICU’s director, Dr. Jennifer Kloezs.

At birth she was whisked away the second she [...]

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23
Apr
2009

Mom Gives Birth In Parking Lot After Hospital Refuses Admittance

A woman was forced to deliver her premature baby in the back seat of a car after a private hospital in Dubai rejected admitting her because it didn’t have the facilities to look after a premature baby.

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10
Feb
2009

Preemie Profile: Drayton’s Story

This story was sent to me by one of our readers Heather.
I became pregnant with identical twin boys in January of 2008.
At 23 weeks and 2 days my water broke and though the doctors held off contractions just long enough to get the steroid shots in me. Drayton and his identical twin Phoenix, were [...]

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8
Feb
2009

Playmobil Patient Transfer Toy

Playmobil is know for their incredibly realistic toys.
The City Life Rescue Doctor with Incubator allows your child to give a tiny baby special attention.
This mobile incubator has legs that fold and includes a place to touch the baby. This set also includes a talented doctor carrying a medical suitcase. A Hospital is [...]

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7
Apr
2008

Update: Polish Quintuplets ‘Stable’

The quintuplets we reported on yesterday are said to be in serious, but stable conditions.
The girls,who arrived in Krakow, Poland on Saturday, arrived via caesarean section in the 27th week of pregnancy, each weigh just 800 grams.
Alina Niedzwiedzka, spokesperson at the hospital in which the quintuplets were born, says that the girls would have to [...]

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4
Mar
2008

Columbian Doctors Use Hammocks To Help Premature Babies

Doctors in Columbia have been using an unusual way to help care for premature babies.
They are placing the infants in specially-designed hammocks measuring just 50cms in length to lie on while in the incubators.
Paediatricians, who have been using this technique two years, wanted to find a way to keep the babies on their backs, [...]

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5
Feb
2008

Amazing Baby Born Weighing 560 gms Thriving at 1 Year!

I am always amazed when I read how well some of these little fighters do after the rocky, crazy beginnings they perservere through.
Last February, Charlie Jo Glover arrived 16 weeks early weighing just 560 gms. She was immediately put on oxygen, in an incubator as she clung on to life with a 50% chance [...]

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22
Nov
2007

Nancy Grace’s Twins Will Stay In Hospital A Bit Longer

UPDATE: John was released from hospital yesterday, Nancy’s spokeswoman confirmed this morning.
“They’re just thrilled to have at least one of the babies home for Thanksgiving,” Caruso said. Lucy still remains in the Atlanta Hospital the twins were born in. No word on her release date was given. Original Post: [...]

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Nov
2007

Dennis Quaid’s Newborn Twins Accidentally Overdosed By Hospital Staff

Tmz.com is reporting that Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins are now currently in stable condition after being inadvertently overdosed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Sources report that the twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were accidentally given a massive dose of Heparin, an anti-coagulant.
Babies typically get 10 units. It is believed that they were [...]

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Aug
2007

Preemie Beats The Odds With Rare Double Lung Transplant

Kali McKellips was born at 24 weeks weighing one and a half pounds. Spending the first few months of her life on a ventillator left her lungs damaged and scarred.
At around 5 months old, Kali’s breathing was getting more difficult. To help her, she underwent surgery to place a “trach” in her [...]

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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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Aug
2007

South Carolina Quintuplets ‘Little Fighters’

I reported last week on a family from South Carolina that welcomed the state’s fifth set of quints in 30 years.

I will now eat my words because I said that the babies were probably conceived by fertility but they weren’t.

The boys were conceived naturally so their occurrence was a huge surprise especially when the fifth [...]

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