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
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.