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Bubbaloo 
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 Posted: 22 February 2007 at 1:49pm |
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OMG 40wks that is just awful I just don't think that is right at all.
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 Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08
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Bombshell
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Posted: 22 February 2007 at 2:44pm |
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i think the actual statements were that there are no obvious signs of anything wrong yet...but then they cant be sure...
one thing - the 40 week thing is a bit of a misnomer..the states involved actually leave it to themedical professionals discretion as to when they can do it...without a time frame...
the baby was apparently a very much wanted IVF baby and so i guess from that perspective - and only imagining what they had been through before - the doctors may have felt more than ever that this was a baby to be saved...am sure all the circumstances of their past etc will come out too...and imiagine she is beign kept in so the parents arent stressed by all the publicity and possible problems with the abortion debate raging over there...I mean there are deaths around that issue when people get anstsy over it all!!!
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Maya
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Posted: 22 February 2007 at 2:47pm |
 KH25 wrote:
It was scary to think that if I had Ashleigh 10 years earlier or so, she probably wouldn't have been "viable" either. |
Mum's waters broke at 27 weeks with my youngest brother (about to turn 21) and they told her if they couldn't stop the labour he had only a 10 % chace of survival. Yet babies born at 27 weeks gest now often do really well and go on to have few or no complications later on. It's amazing how fast technology develops!
(My brother was eventually delivered by elective caesar at 36 weeks after Mum had 9 weeks in hospital flat on her back to stop labour from starting.)
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KH25
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Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:22pm |
Wow Emma, thats a pretty cool story! Yeah they told me a 26 weeker had an 80% survival rate so 27 weeks would be even higher nowadays 
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Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11)
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Maya
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Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:34pm |
Yep, apparently she went to the hospital expecting to have him and lose him (her waters broke at 34 and 35 weeks with my other brother and sister and they induced within 24 hours coz of infection risk) and the OB said he would keep her in and give her ventolin and some other drugs to keep labour at bay and get her to 30 weeks. Then at 30 weeks he said "one more week" and so it went on till Mum had had enough of being flat on her back in the Sydney summer heat with no air con in the hospital (it IS 20 years ago!) and Dad had had enough of being at home with 3 under 4 and pushed to have him delivered. She didn't have any more kids after that tho coz they were just getting earlier and earlier and the risks were too high.
Can you tell I've heard this story just a few times
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted: 23 February 2007 at 12:34pm |
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Wow Emma that is amazing my waters broke at 24 weeks replenished on a week of bedrest then again at 28 weeks and replenished with another week of bedrest, in hospital both times then I bleed at 30 weeks and had my miracle baby girl, we are going to have one more and at the back of my mind is a tiny worry that I could have another premmie.
That wee girl is a real fighter I pray that she has a long and happy healthy life
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1/2 a pound baby!!