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Thank goodness about the little one!

The good thing is, in just recent years...the last 20 years or so, we've come a long way in providing "slighty early" babies with the lung surfactant they need.

Babies are pretty well developed by the last month...just putting on a bit more growth and a lot more fat. The only thing they lack is a natural surfactant that causes their lungs to stay inflated when they take that first breath and not collapse back down and stick together. This is formed right at the end...right before birth.

About 20 years ago, someone figured out how to make an artificial surfactant and it really changed the world. One of the greatest things (in my opinion) to happen in the medical field.

So the doc taking the baby out too earlier is not a great thing (and I'd be pretty hacked, I can tell ya) but it shouldn't be a terrible thing. The baby is surely in the hands of a pediatrician or neonatologist, now and the guy who goofed isn't in the baby's picture anymore.

I hear ya, 2J (about being hacked)!

I was shocked when they told me that the last ultrasound on the baby was done at 18 weeks! It seems to me that it should be SOP to do an ultrasound before the C-section, but I guess not.

Mommy is fine, albeit very concerned about the baby's well-being. She also is working on securing an appointment with a pediatric orthopedic surgeon (I recommended Becky's, even though his bedside manner stinks, he is truly the best).