All God’s creatures, big and small
From the Daily Mail, September 27:
Kimberly [Mueller] is the smallest baby ever born in Germany and the youngest to survive.
She was just 10.2 inches long and weighed little more than a packet of butter [10-1/2 ounces] when she arrived in the 25th week of her mother’s pregnancy….
Kimberly’s progress was underlined when she arrived home this week weighing five and a half pounds and measuring 17 inches….
And from the Daily Mail, September 26…
A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child – doing more than her fair share to stem Russia’s population decline – was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 17.1 lb.
Nadia was delivered by caesarean section in the local maternity hospital in the Altai region on September 17, joining eight sisters and three brothers, a local reporter said….
One of the commenters to this story wrote, “Even the little one on the right looks shocked.”
I’m betting Mom had undiagnosed gestational diabetes.
[HT: friend Michelle]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
What a sweetie!
That preemie…
Is there something way wrong with that child?
(I can’t put my finger on it, but something is “off.”)
Why is she still on tubes and monitors at 5 1/2 lbs.?
(I’m the fool at work who always ends up with the runt puppy tucked in my sports bra and hoping for it to thrive, but that’s rarely the outcome. I don’t wanna be a buzzkill, but I recently watched an update on the McCaughey septuplets, and it was sort of depressing…)
Please tell me that this site doesn’t have a big German fanbase.
Miracle after miacle!
Laura,
It is not unusual for preemies to have respiratory problems. They are at high risk for repiratory infections…
I know someone who had a baby really early. I can’t remember how tiny she was, probably a little bigger than this little thing. She was in the hospital for months and months afterwards. I haven’t talked to this person in a long time, so I don’t know how she is doing. She would probably be about five or six now.
Jill,
Any idea when this child was born? How long she was in the hospital?
17 lbs.. that’s a good size boy. Wonder how soon football scouts will be looking.
Doug
It’s a girl Doug!!
Can’t even imagine how painful that would have been had she given birth naturally.
JM, there you are! How goes it?
It’s a girl Doug!!
Oh Rosie, I guess I wasn’t reading too closely, to say the least… “Nadia.” Geez. Guess I’m having eggs for breakfast this morning .
And now, wonder how soon football scouts will be looking. Heh heh heh.
Doug
It’s a girl Doug!!
Oh Rosie, I guess I wasn’t reading too closely, to say the least… “Nadia.” Geez. Guess I’m having eggs for breakfast this morning .
And now, wonder how soon football scouts will be looking. Heh heh heh.
Doug
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Fine, Doug – we’ve all voted and YOU’RE the one who has to wax her back.
:: wiping egg off face ::
:: wax :: wax :: wax ::
17 pounds?
*cringe*
I can only imagine how much *that* had to hurt. I can’t imagine the tearing that had to be involved. Ow ow ow ow ow ow.
But I give props to the little one! I wish her luck and I hope she grows up to be healthy and happy. :)
Laura –
My son came home looking like that. He was born at 31 weeks. 3 pounds 17 ounces.
It looks like they have oxygen hooked up, which is probably to help prevent apnea. The monitor is set to go off if the breathing stops for a specified amount of time (trust me, the noise of the alarm gets the baby to breath again!) and it will go off if the heart slows down too much, or speeds up to much. (Again – you hope that the heart isn’t going to fast, the noise of the alarm could make anyone’s heart race! ) Can you tell I hated that monitor. Well…it was a love/hate thing actually.
;-)
oh – Laura –
I almost forgot…….
Have you ever had to put a baby bird in your bra to try to keep it alive? Let me tell you….that can get quite painful! Those little beaks can peck at anything! It’s worse than a kitten and the claws….
Have you ever had to put a baby bird in your bra to try to keep it alive? Let me tell you….that can get quite painful! Those little beaks can peck at anything! It’s worse than a kitten and the claws….
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I can’t say I’ve ever had a baby bird in my bra. (Although I once had a kestrel bury its’ talons in my scalp, and let go just long enough to bury its’ talons in my boss’ scalp. Now we call the raptor lady…)
I think the last truly painful moment I’ve had at work was Friday, when myself and a staff of alleged “adults” were watching Animal Planet’s “Meerkat Manor,” and sobbing our little eyes out.
FLOOOOOOOOWERRRR!
Uh… Laura, what happened to Flower?
Uh… Laura, what happened to Flower?
Posted by: Doug at September 29, 2007 11:29 PM
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http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/meerkat/flower/flower.html
Wow – I should have guessed. I’ve seen most of the shows thus far. Ouch. Thank you, Laura.
I know.
The replay is on Monday.
(I’m going to have to comandeer other people’s children so I don’t feel like a dork going to see the Flower movie in 2008: http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/meerkat/movie/movie.html)
…Or the actual working link:
http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/meerkat/movie/movie.html
I love meerkats even more than lemmings and mullets!
Just FYI, the Reuters image of the larger baby screaming as a smaller baby looks over and the child on the scale is actually a different child than the child in the above story and accompnies a story about a 17 lb child born in Russia:
Russian Woman’s 12th Baby Weighs a Massive 17 Pounds
Thursday, September 27, 2007
MOSCOW