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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“"He's expected to be OK," Newkirk said. "He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him. Just keep praying for him. He's here now."
She's now preparing to say goodbye to her daughter. Newkirk said the hospital will take Smith off of life support Tuesday.
"It's kind of hard, you know," she said tearfully. "It's hard to process."
She wishes she had more time“”

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/adriana-smith-baby-born-life-support-update-brain-dead-nicu/85-1fb6595c-3966-4a50-993d-0e36e05cb256

I feel so sorry for this poor woman. If she had been cared for correctly and received better medical care, she could be here with her children.

[b]It’s amazing the Chance is going to be ok![/b] [/quote]
You cannot honestly believe that a one-pound baby is okay.  :roll: [/quote]

AMERICA'S TINIEST PREEMIE
Treatment developed at Iowa helps save extremely premature baby
https://medicineiowa.org/fall-2024/americas-tiniest-preemie

Eight-and-a-half ounces.

That’s roughly the weight of two sticks of butter, a roll of quarters, or a smartphone.

It’s also how much Evelyn Eilers weighed when she was born 17 weeks early at University of Iowa Health Care in September 2023, making her the smallest surviving infant in the U.S., and one of three tied for third-smallest in the world, according to the Tiniest Babies Registry.

Evelyn weighed 240 grams, or 8.46 ounces, at birth. When she went home at 7 months old, she weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces—the size of an average full-term newborn.

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Grandma said they named the baby Chance because he has a second Chance at life. Very sweet.[/quote]

Yeah, super sweet that her daughter was kept as a human incubator against her family's wishes to give birth to a NICU baby and they'll be saddled with hundreds of thousands of medical bills. [/quote]

It's illogical to assume that her dying wish is that her baby would die along with her. That's not how most people think. At all. [/quote]

Honestly. I have two beautiful children.  And have had a miscarriage and an ectopic. And I would not wish my baby’s death and if I was third trimester and a day or week would give my baby a  better outcome, sign me up.  But would I want my dead body to be kept alive by machines for months to gestate a first trimester pregnancy for my parents to raise, when we are experimental territory, and there is a real possibility my child could not survive, have a short painful life, have serious life long disabilities, possibly need life long care that my parents won’t live to provide? No. If I were this woman I would want my baby to pass with me- because the likely outcome is not a 3rd trimester birth of a healthy baby, or a baby with minor issues.  The sad reality is, not al wanted, wished for and deeply loved first trimester pregnancies end in healthy live births. That fact has caused me enormous personal grief and many tears. But I’ve had to accept- not al pregnancies make it.

And this belief doesn’t make me some monster.  And you know what? If a woman wanted her body to be kept alive as this woman’s  was, she isn’t wrong or a monster either.  These are deeply personal decisions, like where to abort second trimester for fatal fetal abnormalities. They should private decisions made by the parents/family, not the government. [/quote]

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