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[quote=Anonymous]My mother was born at 29 or 30 weeks, back in the early 1950s. The doctors sent her home with her parents to die. They didn't do anything at all in the hospital, just said it would be nice to bury her under a tree in the yard when she inevitably died in the next few days. My grandparents put her in a shoebox on a heating pad and fed her homemade formula. (Milk powder, corn syrup, etc-- the old recipe.) My mother was a sickly kid, always had a cold, and had GI issues through her childhood and young adulthood. Those cleared up by the time she was 30, but she still catches every single respiratory bug that comes her way. She's much smaller and less fit/ active/ athletic than all her siblings. She probably also has ADD, but has never been formally diagnosed. That said, she finished college, married, had a couple of kids, and leads a perfectly ordinary life. I expect her parents think she turned out very well.[/quote]
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