[VeritatisSplendor]

It's funny, a baby that is small for its gestational age, as this one is, may well have a better chance at survival. If growth is inhibited in the womb, the lungs mature faster . (maybe other digestion and other systems too?) A basis for the old wives' tale going back to the Greeks, that a 7 month baby is more likely to survive than an 8 month baby.

Mrs VS

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I was born at 32 weeks, 3 lbs... the greatest difficulty for me was the underdeveloped lungs. Touch and go for two months, but then I thrived. My brother was smaller, 2 lbs, 12 oz. My mother had one stillborn child and five premature babies. After her sixth pregnancy, the doctors determined that more than likely the placentas were underdeveloped, and thus birth was triggered at an earlier stage. The doctors believed that we were being starved of nutrition, and that this is why birth happened prematurely each time. Not being a physician, I cannot vouch for this.