Posted on 05/23/2018 7:24:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Twin premature newborn boys died at an Ohio hospital last year while staff stood by refusing to give them medical assistance, a pro-life group is reporting, and the hospital classified the boys’ deaths as stillbirth.
Both boys were born alive at 22 weeks and 5 days gestational age at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, according to the report.
The first born, Emery, survived for 45 minutes. His younger brother, Elliot, lived for two and a half hours, even crying, and his mother, Amanda, begged for help to no avail.
Alarming footage released today by Created Equal shows both boys just after their births.
Amanda is shown in the video beseeching in the case of Emery, “You guys are going to save him, right? Promise me they’re going to save him.”
Amanda then says, “Look at him, please save him.”
Amanda is shown holding and speaking to her newborn boys in the video.
Later in the video, she tells Elliot, “Mommy tried, Mommy tried.”
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Find another hospital, quick!
Oxygen, maybe, but that would not have saved their lives. IV, no. There is no equipment or needles that would reliably fit in veins of babies so small, and would have taken multiple painful sticks to even possibly get one.
Medical science is advancing, but hasn’t reached the stage yet to save these teeny-tinies. 24-25 weekers are probably at the margin of survival and many of those if not most will have severe disabilities. (I’m not up on the exact statistics)
I am pro-life, but sometimes the most loving thing you can do is to let the parents hold and love the babies for as long as they have.
Don’t forget that all of that “do something” that everyone thinks should be done takes the babies from their loving parents’ embrace and causes them significant pain with almost no chance of doing more than giving them a day or 2 of painful, isolated life.
Love,
O2
No the babies would not have made it. No matter what ethnicity.
I would never torture a small being with the things that they do to try to save them, they just are to young to live.
I believe the earliest case of a preemie surviving was just under 22 weeks.
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Surviving does not mean living. It means breathing, sort of. It means that the poor preemie was some student doc’s science experiment.
Let the truly unable to live, die. Lets not make an industry out of it.
It’s a Methodist hospital. They support abortion.
You would torture a little being with skin more fragile than wet tissue paper with an iv?
What is normally done is that the baby is placed on a pillow so the parents can hold it, it is so fragile, it usually has huge brain damage from the birth, and it is wrapped warmly to be rocked and held until it passes.
If it was possible to save the babies, they should have been saved, whether disabled or not. We throw away life too much and we shortchange the power of possibility.
Yes, we hear that a lot...about illegals getting free healthcare. I have not studied that situation, but is it possible either Medicaid or state health insurance programs cover illegals?
I am strongly against illegals receiving anything from any gov’t. Let churches fund them if they want.
> they just are too young to live <
Painful as it is, I suppose that’s the bottom line. And if I were on the jury in a lawsuit brought against the hospital, I’d very reluctantly find in favor of the hospital.
But if I were actually attending, I couldn’t walk away, even though I know that’s the best course of action. That’s why it’s good that I’m not a doctor or a hospital administrator.
Your comment is totally uncalled for when someone is describing his own loss of a child.
Your comment is totally uncalled for when someone is describing his own loss of a child.
It would be if I understood what the person was saying.
I would'a put up at least an oxygen tent with the caution that there may be no positive result but this is something at least.
I'm going to guess the newborns did not die of oxygen starvation but of something else.
The O2 tent would have been good cover for the hospital vs parents.
Is it ethical to list them as stillborn when they lived for 45 minutes for one, and over 2 hours for the other?
***Hopefully those souls will be born again into healthy little bodies.***
Reincarnation, huh?
There is no such thing as an oxygen tent for these kids. No one uses them anymore. I don’t imagine most hospitals have them.
These babies if they were savable would have gone into nicu incubators with the full monty.
Frankly I prefer the Scandinavian method, the baby is suspended in a sling between mom’s breasts and mom pumps and tries to feed the little one. But if it doesn’t survive, it doesn’t survive. I have a difficult time with the torture preemies go through.
Do you think it is ethical for the hospital to list them as stillborn when they lived, breathed, and even cried for nearly an hour or more?
I feel for these parents. I remember getting the expectancy odds for a 25 week baby at 2 am one morning years ago: 1/3 won’t make it, 1/3 will have significant problems, and 1/3 will have minimal long-term issue. What, as a father, do you do with that? Praise God that my daughter was in the last third.
You couldn’t figure this out ???
“and let me say my wife and I had a baby at maybe 21-23 weeks...die.”
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