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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11:30, your friend's great-aunt sounds like a lovely person but the story about her being born at 23 weeks in 1929 is highly unlikely.  First of all, in 1929 there was no way to date a pregnancy with that degree of accuracy.  Most premature babies are physically not developed enough to directly breastfeed after birth, and certainly not at 23 weeks.  Not to mention that her lungs would not have been developed to breath on her own that early, and there were no NICUs in 1929.  I am sure she was premature, but not as premature as she believes.[/quote]

in 1929 women still knew when their LMP was and they knew how to count so it's not impossible to date a pregnancy.

the 23 weeks is an estimate and even if it's 26, 25, 28 it's still very early. she fitted in a shoe box, is it small enough for you?

i said breastfeeding because she sucked, so the sucking reflex was there but i bet her mom barely had any colostrum until a few hours after delivery. they used to feed her with a nasal spoon any milk her mom hand expressed. she still has it in her special treasure box.

let me know if you want any more details.[/quote]

I am not sure why you need to be so defensive over this but yes I agree with the PP I don't think the timing is correct. My mom was actually born that year also and too be frank a lot of what her own mother and sisters told her about that time turned out not to be true. Back then, information was not as easily obtained and it was often very incorrect to begin with. Take for example "shoe box" - they didn't go over to Payless and buy their shoes in a box like we do today but that's the image we have when they say it.  Who really knows if "shoe box" meant a crate used to store shoes or ship them from overseas. It certainly didn't mean small, compact perfectly rectangle manufactured on equipment with a perfect fitting lid cardboard box.  Even "professionals" didn't always get it right back then and there was a lot of mistrust of doctors.  Also, yes, women could calculate so many of them calculated wrong for various reasons and often hid pregnancies if necessary and used made up dates to suit situations.[/quote]

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