Category: Premature babies

By Texas Right to Life One Michigan family will have a special holiday season with their little girl.  Baby Harper Rose Shultz who was born weighing a mere 11 ounces successfully came home in early November after 128 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Saginaw and Bay City News reports that Baby Harper …

By Nancy Flanders  A baby girl born at just 22 and a half weeks and weighing less than one pound has been released from the hospital after more than three months. Harper Rose Schultz was born June 29 at Saginaw’s Covenant HealthCare and is the smallest baby to have ever been resuscitated at the Covenant HealthCare Regional Neonatal …

By Nancy Flanders In July of 2012, Ward Miles Miller was born three and a half months early weighing just 1.5 pounds. His father Ben chronicled the first year of Ward’s life in a heartwarming video that went viral and has now amassed more than 35 million views on YouTube. Viewers loved watching Ward grow …

By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN  A shocking UK Daily Mail article details how a micro-preemie born in Mexico was discovered to be alive six full hours after he was brought to the hospital’s morgue. The unnamed child was born on October 21st at just 23 weeks gestation at La Margarita hospital in the Mexican city of Puebla. …

By Nancy Valko On September 25, 2020, President Donald Trump signed an “Executive Order on Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children” that states: “Every infant born alive, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has the same dignity and the same rights as every other individual and is entitled to the same protections under …

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser  An Ohio hospital has come under investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services, accused of denying two premature infants medical care, allowing them to die instead. It’s a glimmer of hope for justice that is long overdue. In 2017, Amanda Finnefrock went to the hospital, pregnant with twins. She was …

Born just three days past abortion limit in England By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. In this story, part of our ongoing series of posts where we take a second look at an account that appeared one year prior in NRL News Today, we are reminded in vivid terms of the dichotomy—the schizophrenia—of working feverishly to …

Mom says, “It was everything we hoped and prayed for.” By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. When we look back each day at what appeared in NRL News Today one year prior, no story is better received than reminders that more and more premature babies are beating the odds. It wasn’t until June 30, that Jessica …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A tiny baby, smaller than her father’s hand when she was born, given only a 10% chance of survival by doctors, is doing well and has left hospital with her parents, Kevin and Katie Cook, after a 16-week struggle.  The premature baby girl, named Mirren, was …

Millie weighed just 1lb 7oz when she arrived on April 26. By Right to Life UK Baby Millie Bushell is now at home with her parents following a nearly 15 week stay in hospital after being born at just 23 weeks – 17 weeks prematurely and one week before the legal abortion limit. Since her …

By Right to Life UK A premature baby girl born at 22 weeks and two days, weighing just 1lb 2oz (510g), is among the youngest surviving premature babies in the world. Lura Lauer gave birth to twins, Lyric Elaine and Cali Rose, after going into premature labour on July 15, four months before her November …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children  A tiny premature baby boy in an incubator has helped his hopeful dad propose to his mum in the hospital ward. Eden Linton, SPUC Youth and Education Officer said: “This is adorable, and just goes to show that even the tiniest people amongst us have tremendous …