Premature Babies

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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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17
Oct
2007

Australia’s Smallest Baby Beats The Odds

When Adele De Bondi was 20 weeks pregnant during a routine ultrasound doctors noticed that her baby was only about 17 weeks in size.
They gave her a course of steroids in hopes of stimulating the baby’s growth, but her placenta was dying, taking with it – the baby.

Undeterred by the prognosis, Ms [...]

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18
Aug
2007

Miracle 24 Weeker Goes Home

Tamera Dixon weighed slightly more than 11 ounces and measured 10 inches when she was born in April at 25 weeks gestation.
She now weighs four pounds, five ounces.
“She was so tiny, she could hold in the palm of her hand. She was so emaciated, skin and bones really and she [...]

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