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Originally Posted by Sara
I personally think the time limit should be lowered, except for medical reasons were the baby will not have a decent quality of life.
I read this yesterday in the Daily Mail, which is quite interesting. (Interesting isn't the right word but at the moment can't think of a word to describe what i really want to say.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...life-odds.html |
I saw this article too. In the vast majority of cases this baby would not have survived. The story noted in the Mail was in the USA....I'm not sure how they do things over there.
Paediatricians will not attempt resus on a baby whose eyelids are fused as this indicates a gestation of less then 22 weeks.
And before you all start giving me bad Karma......it is for a good reason that resus is not attempted......the chances of survival at this gestational age is very small....and suppose they took a baby like this into special care(even thought its chances were slim) and then a baby was born who DID have a chance of survival, but there was not intensive care cot available because the tiny baby had taken the last cot.
In my experience, the babies who were born before the legal age of viability were kept warm and cuddled by the parents until the inevitable happened.