Comments on: “She now weighs 5½lbs and is getting stronger by the day”

By: cptacek

cptacek — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:39:21 +0000

((redlucy))

By: redlucy

redlucy — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:03:49 +0000

In my mind I truly believe that every baby born alive should be given the same treatment to try and sustain life. In the event that they survive it is only by the grace of God. EVERY life is one that is allowed by God, every life taken is one allowed by God. I have had multiple miscarriages and 1 son who died at 5 months. My heart was broken, but I have to keep on thinking that He knows better than I do. All of it has a meaning and how it intertwines into our lives and helps us grow, or not, is up to us. Each baby could ONLY have been created by God allowing it. Every movement, every thought, every EVERYTHING is His will. The days I try to be the one in the drivers seat are the days I don’t feel peace. Somehow, it happened that this baby was given extraordinary care. I don’t believe in coincidence, she has a purpose on this earth, no matter how long she lives or whether or not she is considered “perfect”.

God bless this family and may their little one bring them much joy.

By: Quisp

Quisp — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:14:23 +0000

Sorry, lost a sentence somewhere. Chance of survival is less than 10%, and chance of profound disability is greater than 95%.

By: Quisp

Quisp — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:13:01 +0000

Palliative care only under 23 weeks is standard procedure in the US as well. The chance of survival is small (95%). Talk to NICU nurses sometime about babies on the edge of viability. You could start here. I'm as pro-life as they come, but these decisions are harder and uglier than people make them out to be. Viability IS a medical fact, and there is an edge beyond which medical science really can't do anything to correct or create it. Reasonable people can disagree over whether it's noble to try, or whether it's experimental and fills a short, fragile life with needless pain. Obviously, a success story makes everyone happy, but it's news because it's rare.

By: bour3

bour3 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:14:12 +0000

I love it when they switch from avoirdupois to metric, it makes me feel so facile, when they could have said, the baby was really .84 LBS to be consistent, or to mix it up more they could have said .06 stone.

By: blatantblue

blatantblue — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:06:04 +0000

so beautiful
welcome to this f*cked up, beautiful world.

By: cptacek

cptacek — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:44:34 +0000

Sick that they even think about letting children die. God bless our stone cold hearts that we can allow this in our world.

By: Left Coast Right Mind

Left Coast Right Mind — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:41:45 +0000

Did they use the Machine That Goes 'Ping'?

By: Caiwyn

Caiwyn — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:53:53 +0000

It was only when she was safely on a ventilator that doctors discovered a pair of scissors had been accidentally left on the scales and that Maddalena actually only weighed 382g.

“accidentally”

By: alwaysfiredup

alwaysfiredup — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:52:41 +0000

It just goes to show you that those that use “viability” as a right to life are wrong. Viability is a subjective concept and not a legal or medical one.

melle1228 on December 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM

Viability is meaningless. Put a number of weeks on it and run with it. But by the same token, it is possible that cloning technology would obviate the debate; that “cluster of cells” wouldn’t need a human body to gestate.