Oh my, that cute little perfect footsie.
Posted on 09/09/2016 3:32:08 PM PDT by Trillian
When she was born her entire foot was the size of a fingernail and she weighed no more than a bell pepper.
Nine months later, the world's smallest baby Emilia Grabarczyk has defied expectations and continues to make giant leaps.
Born in the Witten, west Germany, measuring just 22 centimetres and weighing a mere eight ounces, it was feared she would not survive.
But the girl, labelled 'the little fighter' by doctors treating her, astonished everyone and is thriving.
She now weighs in at 7lb 2oz - a healthy weight for a newborn.
Local reports say it makes her the lightest premature baby in the world to survive.
The previous record is thought to be held by Rumaisa Rahman, who was born in the Loyola University Medical Centre in of Chicago when her mother was 25 weeks pregnant. At birth, she was eight inches tall and weighed 8.6 ounces.
Dr Bahman Gharavi, head of children and youth clinic at St Mary's hospital in Germany, said Emilia's survival was miraculous.
He said the joint effort of paediatricians, gynaecologists and paediatric surgeons - as well as Emilia - had made it possible.
'Even children with a birth weight of 14 ounces rarely survive. We have to thank Emilia as well for her own survival,' he said.
'She is a little fighter.
'For more than six months, it was unclear whether she would survive. Only in recent weeks she is getting more robust.'
At the beginning of the 26th week of pregnancy Prof Dr Sven Schiermeier, chief physician of obstetrics, decided together with the parents to deliver the baby by Caesarean section.
He said that otherwise Emilia would have died in the womb as there was a problem with the placenta meaning she was not getting the nutrition needed to survive.
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Unbelievable !!!!!
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A miracle.
Wendy Davis is deeply saddened.
A true miracle.
So tiny and sweet.
Oh my, that cute little perfect footsie.
Amen to that!
Amazing! What does this say about aborting such little treasures when that size in the mother.
Excellent post! T Y...
PING
Paging Dr Seuss....
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Talk about shoving THAT ONE down their liberal throats.
Any little child would look at that baby and say “baby.”
No child would look and say “pregnancy tissue”.
Know what I mean?
And profound respect to the pro-life parents, NICU pediatricians, nurses, and therapists, etc. They are God’s right-hand people.
Emilia, a blessing.
Sweet little Angel!
Grow up to be a GIANT!
-JT
Her life is such a gift!
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