Category: Premature babies

By Right to Life UK A baby boy was born a week before the abortion limit and, fifteen years later, he’s healthy, happy, climbing Ben Nevis, and raising money for other premature babies like him. Liam Lyttle was born prematurely 15 years ago. He was born when his mum was just over 22 weeks pregnant, …

By Sarah Terzo   Pro-Choice authors Harold J Morowitz and James S Trefil wrote: … We must discuss one further disagreeable fact. In the language of physicians, the term survivability means just that: the ability of the infant to remain alive. It says nothing about what we usually call the quality of life… Many 750 gram infants who …

By Right to Life UK A two-year-old from Norfolk given a 10 percent chance of survival, is now celebrating her second birthday at home.  Isla Tobias was born 16 weeks early at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in September 2020. She weighed only 558 grams [1.2 pounds] at birth, “less than a homemade sponge …

By Dave Andrusko In early 2019, Tatyana Ramjohn’s water broke at 19 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors warned her that life was at risk if she continued the pregnancy and that her unborn son would in all likelihood not survive or if he did would have a greater chance of being born with disabilities. Tatyana Ramjohn …

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A premature baby born at 24 weeks and weighing just one pound is going home, after spending 160 days in the NICU. Heather Yarborough was put on bed rest at 16 weeks pregnant, but according to the family’s GoFundMe page, had to be admitted into the hospital at 22 weeks after discovering …

A baby born four months early and weighing only 1lb 6oz has been saved thanks to the work of the Jennifer Brown Research Lab. Lili Armstrong was born four months early in Edinburgh in January 2021 to parents Delyth Hughes and Marc Armstrong. Read the whole story.

By Right to Life UK A baby born four months early and weighing only 1lb 6oz has been saved thanks to the work of the Jennifer Brown Research Lab. Lili Armstrong was born four months early in Edinburgh in January 2021 to parents Delyth Hughes and Marc Armstrong. She was so fragile her parents were …

By Right to Life UK A mum of twins, who were born at just 26 weeks, has captured the emotional footage of her other children meeting their tiny siblings for the first time. Kayleigh Lever, 33, couldn’t believe it when she and her partner Robbie, 35, found out they were expecting twins. Hudson and Hope …

By Right to Life UK A mum from Harrogate has given birth to her “miracle baby” Ava while on holiday in Lanzarote, just two weeks after the abortion limit in the UK. Hairdresser, Kim Ellis, gave birth to her daughter three months early, at just 26 weeks gestation. Baby Ava weighed just 1lb 15oz. Mum …

By Right to Life UK A man in Atlanta, Georgia, spent his 15-year retirement cuddling premature babies and being a shoulder to lean on for struggling parents at his local hospital. When David Deutchman retired from his career in sales in 2005, he found an unusual way to fill his time. He spent the next …

Babies regularly survive below the abortion limit By Right to Life UK A cross-party group of Parliamentarians including MPs, Peers and Westminster policymakers attended an event hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group (APPPG) on the evidence of survival rates for extremely prematurely-born babies, which was also broadcast as a webinar. Professor John Wyatt, Professor …