Scissors save premature baby's life
22 December FOX News
Maddalena Douse is one of the smallest premature babies ever to
survive in the U.K.thanks to a pair of scissors.She’s our little
miracle, and we’re so glad to have her home in time for Christmas. ”Baby
Maddalena's mother, Kate When she was born six months ago at just 23
weeks, she was so tiny doctors did not know if they should try to save
her.
But when they put her on the scales she weighed 1 pound, the minimum
weight for a baby to be considered viable so they fought for her.Only
when she was safely on a ventilator did doctors discover the scissors
had been accidentally left on the scales, and that 8-inch Maddalena in
fact weighed only .84 pounds, or about 13 ounces.
The lucky baby has now been discharged from the Royal Sussex Hospital
and is expected to grow into a healthy child. addalena's twin sister,
Isabella, died a few weeks after the girls’ birth. “She now weighs 5½
pounds and is getting stronger by the day,” Maddalena's mother, Kate,
said. “She’s our little miracle, and we’re so glad to have her home in
time for Christmas.”
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