Nicknamed "Saybie" by her doctors, this little girl is believed to be the smallest surviving premature baby in the world. By Andrew Wood Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post at Pregnancy Help News. Baby Saybie Photo: Sharp Mary Birch Hospital Born at 23 weeks...
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NBC Fails to Acknowledge Irony of ‘World’s Tiniest Surviving Baby’ on Abortion Debate
By Ryan Foley As ABC's World News Tonight aired a story sympathetic to the pro-abortion movement, NBC Nightly News actually devoted 20 seconds to an inspiring story out of San Diego. Fill-in anchor Savannah Guthrie reported on the progress of “what doctors are calling...
AMAZING: Texas NICU nurse helps premature babies at the same hospital that saved her life
By Texas Right to Life Tammy Lewis is a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Temple, Texas. As a respiratory therapist at McLane Children’s Medical Center Baylor Scott & White, Lewis helps babies breathe through the assistance of ventilators and...
“Little fighters,” premature twins born at 24 weeks, home and thriving
By Dave Andrusko I’ve often wondered what lies behind the appearance of so many stories in British newspapers about premature babies. I get that people—starting with me—are encouraged and lifted up when a little one beats the odds. If makes an even greater impact if...
Mother shares photo of daughter born at 21 weeks: My baby was not a ‘clump of cells’
By Becky Yeh One mother is sharing an image of her baby, born premature at 21 weeks, to show the humanity and inherent dignity of children in the womb. The image, posted by Save the Storks on Facebook, affirms that the preborn are not “clumps of cells” or “tissue,”...
Benson, who was born at 22 weeks five days, is home from the hospital
By Nancy Flanders Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. In the early...
Mother refuses multiple suggestions she abort, baby and mother survive traumatic pregnancy
By Dave Andrusko Rebecca Shephard, of Dagenham, Essex, England, had not planned to get pregnant again but when the 27-year-old Care home deputy manager discovered she was in 2017, she and her partner Jack Luckings were delighted. But because Shephard became pregnant...
Sound of mother’s voice boosts brain growth in premature babies
By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A possible solution to premature babies language difficulties Pro-lifers have long known that unborn babies respond to sounds from as early as the fourth month after conception - including their mother's...
Hailie Dillon born so premature her skin was transparent
Now healthy and happy one year old By Dave Andrusko When little Hailie Dillon was born last year at James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough, England, she survived a collapsed lung and seven minutes without oxygen. But that was only part of the story of what her mom Cheri...
Born the size of an iPad, “miracle baby” now doing well
Born three months early, weighing just 1 pound, 13 ounces By Dave Andrusko Having already experienced six miscarriages, when Emma Maskery was rushed to the hospital in September, she feared the worst. Daughter Roux was not due to be born for another three...