[BellStar]

I was never in my life unsure of what an 8-month pregnant wife was caring as in the case of Laci Peterson.
A little family history might help.
My mother came along in Grandmothers 7th month of gestation back in 1924. Premature babies in those days born out in the country, Muldoon, TX, Southwest Fayette County to be specific, had a birth survival expectation of about 0 %. Granddad was a civil engineer and grandmother raised chickens for "pin-money." The two of them came up with an idea that worked. Granddad and the country MD who delivered mom one very cold November night got busy and took a light bulb of unknown wattage and fabricated a brooder box used for baby chicks into a pretty fair prototype of today's incubators complete with a pan of water for humidity. It worked! Mom turned 80 years old Nov. 2nd. My granddad told us the Dr. resisted the idea at first but gave in because of the hopelessness of saving my 1lb. mom. The country MD latter wrote a book entitled Confessions of a country MD and mentioned "his" improvised incubator.

Now get real people don't let someones political agenda get in the way of what your heart and head tell you. It is was and will always be a baby.

[shibumi]

BEAUTIFUL STORY!

[Alouette]

Granddad and the country MD who delivered mom one very cold November night got busy and took a light bulb of unknown wattage and fabricated a brooder box used for baby chicks into a pretty fair prototype of today's incubators complete with a pan of water for humidity. It worked!

The Dionne quintuplets, born on a farm in rural Quebec in 1934, were put into a similar apparatus.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I also know a woman, now in her 70s who was born at home and weighed less than two pounds.

[Ciexyz]

Wonderful story about your premature grandmother!

I was a preemie myself, 3 lbs 8 oz and my weight soon dropped to 3 lbs. 3 oz. I was in an incubator at a time when the lights were so bright that many babies became blind, many doctors of that era weren't aware of the hazards. Fortunately my hospital was aware of that hazard, and my eyesight was normal. But I ran into at least one case of a woman born the same year I was, premature, placed in an incubator with bright lights, who is legally blind (limited vision in her eyes).