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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

That's only 3 months early. [/quote]
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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?[/quote]
But the above equation went to April 2, not May. So that wouldn't work.

Also, the baby was born in January.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

What? You are not one month on the date of your birth. People are so dumb. The earliest preemies survive is 23 weeks. Maybe 22 and 5 or 6 days. No ethical medical professional is providing anything other than comfort care to a baby born before that. And it is important for journalists/the media to get this stuff correct. And as a mother of a preemie, I am tired of hearing about the friend of a cousin of a coworker who had a baby born 6 months early named orangejello after what she ate for lunch and the baby being fine.[/quote]

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