Category: Premature babies

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation It was one of those Facebook posts which breaks your heart. A young mother who had just given birth to twins found out that one of her newborn baby boys was in medical trouble.  He was flown to a distant children’s hospital where he could receive …

By Right to Life UK A baby born at 22 weeks weighing only 500g has just gone home after four months in hospital. Baby Sofia Viktoria Birina was due on the 1st February 2021, but instead was born in University Wishaw Hospital on the 2nd October 2020. Her mother, Egija, said: “Everything was fine at …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. A friend of long standing dropped me a note this morning. He’d been looking for material about premature births and, lo and behold, ran across this article from many years ago. In subsequent years the good news about ever-younger preemies surviving has only gotten better. Personally, I believe this story’s  …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation It was one of those days in the Northeast when the day’s fresh snowfall prevents  travel. I was at home, wrapping up my telecommuting for the day, when I flipped on the television. There, I caught a talk show I would not ordinarily have time to …

By Laura Nicole  Medical advances for the tiniest babies grow by leaps and bounds all the time, and for identical twin micropreemies from Mesa, Arizona, they’ve had an especially large impact.  Garrett and Carter Lopez were delivered by cesarean section when their mother’s water broke early at 27 weeks. The twins were not expected until late …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A baby who was born 15 weeks prematurely has been described as having a “fighting spirit” after he miraculously fought off multiple infections including COVID-19, E.coli and Sepsis. Baby, Archie Edwards weighed a mere 1lb 11oz when he was born extremely premature. After being born without …

By Right to Life UK A new study suggested that singing to premature infants can reduce a mother’s anxiety and support the mother-baby bond. Published in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, researchers at the University of Helsinki observed 24 mothers who sang or hummed to their baby while holding them during skin-to-skin contact in hospital. …

By Nancy Valko On September 25, 2020, three months prior to Christmas to the day, 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 …

By Nancy Flanders  On November 1, a family in Georgia celebrated their son’s final medical treatment from complications following his preterm birth. Then the following day, they celebrated his third birthday. According to Good Morning America, when Charlie Smith graduated from his continued care, first responders and medical staff were there, holding a drive by parade and …

By Right to Life UK A New Zealand baby born at 23 weeks is now 9 months old and has left the hospital. Declan Colquhoun, along with his brother Riley, was born in March at just 23 weeks gestation. He was so small, weighing only 400g [well less than a pound], that his aunt’s wedding …

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 …