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.
Praise God Indeed!
I’m fairly far removed from when I used to keep up with this, but my understanding is that before the babies reach a certain size, equipment and physics are the main problems. Catheters have to be too small for meds or liquids to flow through, Breathing tubes small enough to fit can’t deliver volumes of oxygenated air needed.
It’s going to take major advances, not just sizing down of equipment to cross that 24-25 week threshold, I think.
Love,
O2