By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A woman who was a miracle premature baby has become a doctor 32 years later and is determined to help other vulnerable children like herself. SPUC says Sabina’s story is a “wonderful example of caring for tiny babies at the earliest stages of their lives.” In …
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By Anne Marie Williams Born 15 weeks early in May of this year, baby Kallie Bender of Phoenix, Arizona, was discharged home with her family on Monday after 150 days in the hospital. During her pregnancy, Kallie’s mother, Ebonie, had been seeing a high-risk doctor for high blood pressure, also called pregnancy-induced hypertension. High blood …
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By Dave Andrusko Who “weighed less than a pound at birth, and measured shorter than an average-sized Barbie doll”? If you answered Kallie Bender, you’d be 100% correct. If you knew she was born 15 weeks premature, you’d get extra points. Fox 5 (Phoenix) reported that after 150 days in the St. Joseph’s Nursery Intensive …
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Born just three days past abortion limit in England By Dave Andrusko It is almost a given with British publications which are fascinating by the dichotomy. Whenever a preemie is born close to the legal 24 week limit for abortion, the reader is reminded that a baby who in one room doctors are desperately trying …
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Mom says, “It was everything we hoped and prayed for.” By Dave Andrusko It wasn’t until June 30, that Jessica Hill was able to hold her son for the first time. She called that moment “unbelievable,” and it took place a little over one month after Finn James Hill was born “via emergency cesarean section, …
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By Dave Andrusko This is one of those “whatever happened to” stories. And the best kind—a happy update. Almost three years ago, a photo of five days old premature baby shared on “Birth Without Fear” and “Love What Matters” went viral. One look at the dazzling smile of Freya Vinje shows you why. This week …
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By Dave Andrusko The average birth weight for male babies born at full term is 7 pounds, 6 ounces. So on it’s not surprising that when Ellonn Smartt went into labor on July 11 at just 23 weeks, doctor at Iowa Methodist Medical Center warned her that her baby might well not survive. “They said …
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By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation She came into the world [at the tender age of 26 weeks’ gestation–just two weeks past Pennsylvania’s late-term abortion limit. At birth, she weighed a scarce pound-and-a-half–approximately the same weight as a block and a half of butter. As a result, medical professionals whisked her into …
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By Dave Andrusko Sunday is Father’s Day. Today we are running two very different posts. We’ve reposted Phil McCombs’ classic post where the then Washington Post reporter tells the story of “Thomas,” the baby his girlfriend aborted and his own behavior which he described as “in all respects craven, immoral.” Then there is this post …
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Nicknamed “Saybie” by her doctors, this little girl is believed to be the smallest surviving premature baby in the world. By Andrew Wood Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post at Pregnancy Help News. Born at 23 weeks and three days, Saybie is now the world’s smallest surviving premature baby. This little girl, nicknamed …
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By Ryan Foley As ABC’s World News Tonight aired a story sympathetic to the pro-abortion movement, NBC Nightly News actually devoted 20 seconds to an inspiring story out of San Diego. Fill-in anchor Savannah Guthrie reported on the progress of “what doctors are calling the world’s tiniest surviving baby,” so while NBC deserves credit for …
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By Dave Andrusko The staff knew this preemie was going to be very small. But last December, as Paul Wozniak, a neonatologist at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns in San Diego, stood in the delivery room looking down at the infant the staff would later nickname Saybie , he told Allyson Chiu. …
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