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• Preemie Catches on Fire

  This is one of those stories where the sensible side of your brain reminds you that it's a rare tragedy, most likely won't happen to your child, you're safe, you're safe, you're safe. The crazy side of your brain, though, thinks you and yours are surely the next victim. In a Minnesota hospital, a baby born three weeks early, was wearing an oxygen hood -- a device that fits over the face and supplies extra oxygen -- when something caused a fire to ignite. Read More... Posted Jan 24 2008, 01:59 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: hospitals, hospital, preemie babies, preemie, preemies, burns, hospitalization, burning, accidents, incubator

• Super-Preemie: World's Youngest Baby Doing Well

  You know things aren't starting well when your mother lies about your age when you haven't even been born yet.  But that's exactly what Sonja Taylor did when she went into labor with her daughter Amillia at just 19 weeks gestation, knowing as she did that babies under 22 weeks have practically zero chance of survival and aren't even resuscitated.  Sonja must have been really tapped into that mother's intuition-thing though, knowing somehow that her tiny daughter (weighing just 10 ounces!  and the length of a pen!) would be okay, because Amillia was born and she did survive, responding medically in ways that she "shouldn't" have given her world-record youngest gestational age of just 21 weeks and 6 days. Not that I advocate lying like that, but....wow.  Aren't humans wonderful? The whole thing just amazes me.  (Though I shudder to think of what all this cost)  Amillia goes home today after four months in intensive care. Posted Feb 20 2007, 09:57 AM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: babies, 21 weeks gestation, premature birth, youngest baby, preemie