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 [...]
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.
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, [...]
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 also [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: While Nancy Grace rests at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rachelle Wilkinson delivered a record breaking set of quintuplets yesterday. I was lucky enough to find this footage of the birth of the babies, which is awesome!! It shows the babies just after they were delivered and all of them wrapped up. Like the ultrasound video, it is about 4 minutes, but worth watching. Related [...]
