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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a preemie. He weighed 3lb, 14oz, at 32 weeks. He had a global developmental delay, needed extensive physical, occupational, feeding and speech therapy, has anaphylactic allergies to certain foods, ADHD and autism. All these issues increase with premature birth and low birth weight.

Just because some very lucky babies survive extremely premature births and low birth weights, doesn't mean they all survive; and the littlest, most fragile ones NEVER survive without lifelong issues. Chance will have lifelong issues if he survives.

The grandmother isn't lying. The hospital staff is not telling her what this baby will have to go through. The hospital staff would never lay it all out for new parents/grandparents! All they're telling her is that right now he's alive, and has a fighting chance of surviving tomorrow. Nothing beyond that.

You have to interpret these things correctly, PPs.

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Citation needed for your diagnosis for a baby you have never laid eyes on? Are you his doctor? Are you a preemie doctor?

My son was born premature and is normal.

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I'm a research scientist who worked in a NICU ward, and have read the literature on the subject, OP. My husband is a doctor.

[b]There are plenty of preemies who have positive outcomes,[/b] I never said otherwise. But negative outcomes increase with the degree of prematurity and this preemie is at HIGH risk. Surely you don't dispute that. I am talking about statistics and probabilities. Surely you understand those concepts. None of us can predict the outcome of this particular infant, but what math tells us is that his chances of survival without any adverse effects are practically nil.

And this is before we get into discussions on the physiology of brain-dead mothers kept alive until their fetus has a chance of survival. I cannot comment on that, not having researched the topic. I am just talking about the health risks of micro-preemies in living mothers.

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But this baby isn't just a preemie, he's a micro-preemie. They face even more challenges and complications.

This baby has a 48.7% chance of survival. He also has a chance greater than 96% that he will have severe lifelong medical complications.

The choice to provide lifelong care to a baby with severe complications was never given to the family. They have been forced into this situation and that is the greatest tragedy. Tax payers will spend billions over this baby's lifetime to keep it alive or if the GOP are successful in gutting medicare & medicaid, the family will go bankrupt trying to provide adequate care for him. [/quote]

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