In Babies and more we have echoed several times news of very premature babies who have managed to survive. This time it is a girl who was born last month in Shanghai, China with 23 weeks of gestation and just 413 grams and 26 centimeters.
It is amazing that a baby that has been gestated for half the time that a term baby manages to survive, but it is also incredible the strength that a small human being practically the size of a hand can have to get ahead.
The mother has prematurely given birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. The boy died a few hours after birth, but the girl still struggles for her life in an incubator at the Children's Hospital of the University of Fudan where she must remain at least three more months.
Cases like this are increasingly frequent, so that a baby of four, five or six months of gestation gets ahead is possible thanks to the new medical techniques for the treatment of premature babies such as drugs that help mature the lungs of newborns born Also thanks to the kangaroo method of skin with skin that is spreading throughout the world.
The life expectancy of very premature babies is increasingly high, reaching 70 percent survival during the first year, although in certain cases the consequences that these babies must carry can be very serious.
For some it is miraculous that a baby of less than 500 grams survives, but the truth is that we increasingly know more cases of babies so small that they have managed to get ahead. Therefore, I believe that the legislation of some countries that do not consider it ethical to fight for the life of extreme premature babies should adapt to the new reality.
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