MIAMI - The world's most premature living baby, born at 21 weeks and six days, is headed home after spending four months in a neonatal intensive care unit, Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami has announced. 'It was hard to imagine she would get this far
adapted from: The Straits Times Interactive, <http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/sti/search/Search.jsp>, 21/02/07
去年10月出世时重284克、身长24公分世界最小早产婴 奇迹般存活回家
（迈阿密综合电）世界最小的早产婴孩出世时，身长比圆珠笔还要短，人们都以为她活不了，但是她却奇迹般地存活下来，而且还在昨天出院回家与妈妈团聚。
这个早产婴名叫阿米利阿·泰勒（Amillia Taylor），在去年10月24日呱呱落地。
阿米利阿的母亲索妮娅接受体外授精手术后怀了她，可是却出现各种危险征兆。
美国佛罗里达州肯德尔镇浸信会儿童医院的接生小组曾多次试图推迟产期，不过都失败了。他们最终决定在索尼娅怀胎21个星期又6天时为她剖腹接生；正常的分娩期是在怀孕后的37至40个星期。
阿米利阿出世时，体重只有284克（9.94安士），身长24公分（9.5英寸）。但是，她一出娘胎已能自行呼吸，还几次作出啼哭的努力。
在开始的六周，索尼娅只获准透过塑料布看望她的宝宝，一直到今年3月才有机会把孩子抱在怀里。
不过，经过医护人员不分昼夜和无微不至的照顾，在新生儿加护病房住了四个月的阿米利阿，终于在昨天出院了。
索妮娅欣然地说：“很难想像她能够坚持这么久，现在她看上去已和正常婴儿没有分别……虽然她现在只有4英磅（1.8公斤），但对我来说，她已经是又圆又胖了。”
“她确是个神奇婴儿”
医生说，阿米利阿现在已活泼成长，可以让父母带回家照顾。不过，阿米利阿仍须服食哮喘药和协助皮肤生长的维生素E。她的父母为她洗澡时也必须采取特别防范措施，并为她补充氧气。
adapted from: 联合早报网 zaobao.com，<http://www.zaobao.com/gj/gj070221_501.html>, 21/02/07
*sorry, can't get the full report from straits times website, so i attached the zaobao version as well.
was so amazed when i read this news this morning.
just imagine, a 21-weeks old baby is born and survived.
21 weeks, that is around 5 months old only. and to think that some people can actually abort their babies around then.
i'm not an extreme pro-life person. i just feel that people who abort their babies just because they don't feel like having a child , or the baby is an unwanted "accident", are so cruel. i esecially cannot understand those people who have pre-martial sex and go for abortion when they are pregnant.
if you don't want a child, then don't ever do it before you get married!
think of the consequences before you want to take another step further, people.
life is precious.
posted by +abrac[A]dabra+ @ 10:14
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