A person I know gave birth to her baby boy
at 20 weeks. Can you believe it? Oh
often can that happen? The baby is now
home with the parents'. I'm not sure how
long it was in the hospital for nor how
much it weighed. I guess there were some
complications so they decided to go ahead
and take the baby out now. I should get
more info tomorrow.
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laura_girl
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 173 Location: Montreal, Quebec
Posted: 01-14-05 20:14pm
20 weeks is super early... It's amazing
that he survived, usually the "viability"
date is around 23 weeks, before this they
don't "attempt miracles", your friend must
have an amazing team of doctors and her
son must have an awesome spirit and drive
for survival.
I looked up stats for you... All I could
find was that about 8% of babies are
considered "premature" at birth (before 37
weeks) but I don't know how often this
happens to babies as small as your
friend's
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LeXiee
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 313 Location: Quebec
Posted: 01-14-05 20:17pm
Yeah.. I can't wait to get more info
tomorrow. I just know the father call
another one of my friend's all excited
that his baby is home.... But you know
men.... He never thought of asking for
any details.
I'm 14 weeks.. I have a little belly.. I
couldn't imagine giving birth in 5
weeks... No way will the baby be big
enough then. But I guess we would be
surprised. Babies are so strong.
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bd1012
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 1998
Posted: 01-14-05 20:31pm
Wow!! That's amazing!! I think bf was
like around 24 weeks when he was born..
He was so tiny.. Hard to believe if you
seem him now. They say that these little
preemie boys turn out to be football
players.. It was the case with mine.. He
was a football player for a little while.
Now he's a bodybuilder.
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steen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 1797 Location: Upper Midwest
Re: a Person I Know... Posted: 01-14-05 22:07pm
lexiee
wrote:
a person I know gave birth
to her baby boy at 20 weeks. Can you
believe it? Oh often can that
happen?
well, the very youngest
survival on record is 19 weeks, 6 days.
So 20 weeks must be rather astonishing.
Such rare events are written up in medical
journals, so I am curious as to the event.
Can you get a reference?
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LeXiee
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 313 Location: Quebec
Posted: 01-14-05 22:25pm
Like I said, i'm going to try and get more
info tomorrow. Normally I would have
seen the father tomorrow, but he won't be
attending the tournament we have because
he wants to stay home with his new family
( I don't blame him). As soon as I have
info i'll let you know. I'm very curious
myself... And I always like to get my
information directly from the source :)
because you just never know about rumors
:)
