Baby born 5 months early

[Anonymous]

Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

[Anonymous]

I work in labor and delivery. It would be unethical to attempt any life saving measures on a baby born that early, as they have no chance of survival.

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Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

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Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

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Im assuming there are two aholes here. If I were in postpartum grief (which I am blessedly not), I would count December as a month, January as another, Feb 3rd, April 4th and May 5th. Grief five months. They had a micropremie. Who cares what words they chose?

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Anonymous wrote:What are you struggling with? Plenty of people have babies born that early. They have a long road a head of them.

No, they don't. The earliest babies that survive are 23-24 weeks. Maybe a rare 22 weeker. That is 18 weeks early, or approximately 4.5 months. No way can a baby born at 20 weeks survive.

Well, this one has survived for 5 days so far. Really throws our country's approval of late abortion into sharp focus, doesn't it?

Not really. It's not as if those who have late term abortions are just blithely waiting around until the fetus is close to viable to abort. Pregnancies that are terminated that late in the game are largely due to finding out about some terrible news about the health of the mother, the health of the fetus, or both.

This, fucking this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

This. Obviously the math is a little off but they have a 1 pound extremely premature baby. This is not the time to pick them apart.

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Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

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Im assuming there are two aholes here. If I were in postpartum grief (which I am blessedly not), I would count December as a month, January as another, Feb 3rd, April 4th and May 5th. Grief five months. They had a micropremie. Who cares what words they chose?

But the above equation went to April 2, not May. So that wouldn't work.

Also, the baby was born in January.

[Anonymous]

This is really on People for running with that absurd headline.

[Anonymous]

Whatever the dates are, they are in one hell of a battle. If the baby survives, what will she deal with?

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Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

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Im assuming there are two aholes here. If I were in postpartum grief (which I am blessedly not), I would count December as a month, January as another, Feb 3rd, April 4th and May 5th. Grief five months. They had a micropremie. Who cares what words they chose?

But the above equation went to April 2, not May. So that wouldn't work.

Also, the baby was born in January.

Ok.

Il'l play your math.


Baby born on around Jan 2. One month. Let's say 24 weeks gestation.
February 1, 2 months. 28.3 weeks gestation.
March 1, 3 months, 32.2 weeks gestation.
April, 4 months. 36.5 weeks gestation.
May 1stish due date, month 5. 40+6.


You are trying to make this something it is not. It is a family in crisis and grief. I hope we are all so lucky to avoid situations like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

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Im assuming there are two aholes here. If I were in postpartum grief (which I am blessedly not), I would count December as a month, January as another, Feb 3rd, April 4th and May 5th. Grief five months. They had a micropremie. Who cares what words they chose?

But the above equation went to April 2, not May. So that wouldn't work.

Also, the baby was born in January.

Ok.



Il'l play your math.


Baby born on around Jan 2. One month. Let's say 24 weeks gestation.
February 1, 2 months. 28.3 weeks gestation.
March 1, 3 months, 32.2 weeks gestation.
April, 4 months. 36.5 weeks gestation.
May 1stish due date, month 5. 40+6.


You are trying to make this something it is not. It is a family in crisis and grief. I hope we are all so lucky to avoid situations like that.

But she couldn't have been due in May, she would have been overdue.

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Anonymous wrote:Give them a break. They have a child who may face challenges the rest of her life-- if she lives. If I'm in five day post-partum grief, I may have characterized a baby due on 2-April, but born on 29-December as being 5 months early.

That's only 3 months early.

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Im assuming there are two aholes here. If I were in postpartum grief (which I am blessedly not), I would count December as a month, January as another, Feb 3rd, April 4th and May 5th. Grief five months. They had a micropremie. Who cares what words they chose?

But the above equation went to April 2, not May. So that wouldn't work.

Also, the baby was born in January.

Ok.



Il'l play your math.


Baby born on around Jan 2. One month. Let's say 24 weeks gestation.
February 1, 2 months. 28.3 weeks gestation.
March 1, 3 months, 32.2 weeks gestation.
April, 4 months. 36.5 weeks gestation.
May 1stish due date, month 5. 40+6.


You are trying to make this something it is not. It is a family in crisis and grief. I hope we are all so lucky to avoid situations like that.

But she couldn't have been due in May, she would have been overdue.

[Anonymous]

Also, mom was wrong about the dates no matter the reason. No way was the baby five months early, maybe she has a math LD,

[Anonymous]

wait - They're having ANOTHER baby, too?