Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Wonder if labor was still an ordeal.

10 ounces? Why don't they say how big she is. That's half the mass of a soda bottle.

Baby, among smallest to survive, to be released from hospital

'MIAMI (AP) - Doctors in Miami say a tiny premature baby that weighed just ten ounces at birth has proven them wrong.

Amillia Sonja Taylor - who was delivered just under 22 weeks from conception, is going home Tuesday. Full-term births come after 37 to 40 weeks.

Neonatologists who cared for Amillia say she is the first baby known to survive after a gestation period of fewer than 23 weeks. A database run by the University of Iowa's Department of Pediatrics lists seven babies born at 23 weeks between 1994 and 2003.

Amillia was born with respiratory and digestive problems, but her doctors say none of the health concerns are expected to pose long-term problems.'


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