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A Minnesota baby, born at 21-weeks-old, is home for the holidays. Richard Hutchinson was discharged from the Mother Baby Center at Children’s Minnesota on Friday, defying the odds. “They didn’t really think he was going to make it and he's coming home now,” said Beth Hutchinson. She and her husband Rick Hutchinson went to the hospital in June when she unexpectedly went into labor. Richard came into the world on June 5th, weighing just more than a pound. “It was so emotional just laying eyes on him,” said Beth Hutchinson. “I cried for I don’t know how long because he...

Baby 'the size of two mobile phones' miraculously survivesBy KAREN GRATTAGE - More by this author » Last updated at 22:47pm on 15th September 2007  When Deborah and Russell Anderson learned they were finally expecting the baby they longed for, they decided to enjoy their last long-haul holiday for years. But their two-week trip to South Africa became a traumatic six-month stay after Deborah gave birth to their son Henry at just 26 weeks. The couple had hoped the £3,000 holiday in Cape Town would be a relaxing antidote to the 12 months they had spent undergoing IVF treatment....

A baby girl declared stillborn by a Malaysian hospital shocked her grieving parents when she started moving as they prepared to bury her, a report said Monday. The father, Azmi Masiron, said he and other mourners in a village in northern Kedah state noticed a tiny movement from the baby as she lay on a funeral shroud, shortly after being declared dead on Sunday. "When my father-in-law placed the baby on the burial shroud, she suddenly moved, shocking about 200 villagers who had gathered for the funeral," Azmi was quoted saying by the New Straits Times. The 26-year-old father said...

<p>This is just unbeleivable! Please read before viewing picture - it's worth it!</p> <p>A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.</p>

A baby has beaten odds of 13million to one to be born fit and healthy despite having grown in her mother's abdomen, instead of her womb. Doctors only realised Millie-An Pittman was in the wrong place when they performed an emergency Caesarean on her mum Lisa - who had originally been told she would find it hard to have children. The baby, whose name is a play on words on "one in a million", was delivered successfully weighing 8lb 7oz in one of only 100 such cases in the world ever. She is now four weeks old.

MIAMI (AFP) - A Japanese baby is recovering well after receiving six organs from a donor baby, a procedure banned in Japan, his doctor revealed. Eleven-month-old Yosuke Ohashi quietly sucked a pacifier in his mother's arms at a press conference Friday where doctors announced his remarkable recovery from the eight-hour operation, performed on December 24. "The success of a little child like this ... could have an impact" on Japanese law, said Tomoaki Kato, the surgeon who performed the transplant at the University of Miami Jackson transplant center. In Japan, children under 15 are barred from donating organs. Japan legalized...

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