By Dave Andrusko Whatever their motivations, many newspapers in Britain are mesmerized by babies who are born close to 24 weeks, the outermost limit (for the most part)at which unborn babies can be aborted. We’ve written dozens of stories based on accounts in the...
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12 ounce preemie goes home for the first time from Maryland NICU
Weighed the equivalent of three sticks of butter at birth By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers...
Born weighing barely a pound, Canadian preemie now thriving
By Dave Andrusko Now seven months old, Kayden Slottke weighs 14 pounds. “He’s teething, he just started eating solid foods and he’s ready to take on the next challenge life throws at him,” writes Sarah Kraus for Global News in Edmonton, Canada. What makes that casual...
Very immature preemie survives, thanks to experimental drug
Born 12 weeks premature weighing the same as a loaf of bread By Dave Andrusko An experimental drug used to assist preemies with immature lung development is being credited with saving the life of a now 2-year-old toddler who weighed the same as a loaf of bread when...
Tiny preemie reaches out for contact and comfort
By Dave Andrusko Two of my sisters are nurses, one is still active in an ER, and I sure wish they would have told me about Figure 1, an image-sharing app for medical staff. (I assume they didn’t/couldn’t for professional reasons. Still….) In Monday’s edition of the...
Preemie “completely changed the world” in his brief life
“Jack Sparrow” born at 24 weeks By Dave Andrusko When doctors learned that Jack Riley Sadgrove would be born at 24 weeks, one of the first questions they asked his parents was whether they “wanted to keep the baby” since his chances for survival were so low. “The next...
Her preemie survives (and thrives) but this only makes mother more supportive of “later abortions”
By Dave Andrusko From the pro-abortion perspective, if there is any sure thing, it is that no matter what the outcome, the decision must always rest exclusively in the hands of the mother. Even when the choice is for life, the proper measuring stick is not that the...
“As if he was telling us ‘I’m okay!!! Don’t give up on me!,’” the incredible story of a baby born at 25 weeks who is doing fine
By Dave Andrusko It was purely a coincidence. No sooner had I finished writing about the sad, sad story of Ariel Levy’s miscarriage at 19 weeks than I ran across “One Miraculous Year In The Life Of A Baby Born Too Soon,” the amazing story of how little Ward...