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Read this........It's a miracle but some are saying is not
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710399820&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
WOW.... i have goosebumps and my arm hair is standing on end!! that is so sad! i definately think is was a miracle for sure...
that is so sad..cant imagine what the parents must hv gone thru..she is a little angle in heaven now..
wow i just got done reading this and i have goose bumps..because i know from what im going trough what it means to have a miracle baby...i have a 24 weeker who waa born in march he was 1 lbs 7 oz and drs. really did all they could to save my little guy...hes such a trooper hes been trough so much already...he spent 111 days in the NICU and has now been home for 6 weeks! hes now 9 lbs and doing great! we still dont know what the future might hold for us...but for now im just enjoying my little miracle!
IM A TRUE FIRM BELIVER THAT MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
IM A TRUE FIRM BELIVER THAT MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
no, the baby did'nt live. that's so sad. my little great niece was born at 24 weeks. she weighed 21 ounces and was 12 inches long. i'm so happy to say that she is going to have her second birthday soon and has no disabilities at all. the hospital was so wonderful, she is our miracle baby. i just wanted to share this about my great niece. they should have not given up so soon on that other baby. remar
wow.....idk what to say.....and obviously the baby moved, they put her back into the NICU and tried to save her.....but then say she wasn't even alive?(maybe i got lost on that part) idk, i'm confused.....and they're kind of making themselves(the dr's/hosp) feel better about it by saying the child would have suffered severe disability.....well, heck that doesn't matter does it? a handicapped child is a LIVING child, is it not?
too bad an autopsy wasn't done, they'd have been able to see wether that baby's lungs had FULLY expanded, and that would mean she'd taken breaths....from what a nurse friend of mine(who used to work L&D said), they were taught the lungs don't FULLY expand, unless the baby has taken in enough air to FILL the lungs.....and if that baby had taken a full breath, she was viable.....and should have been "hooked up" for alot more monitoring, before just sent off to the morgue....i don't know, i honestly think i would sue if a gynecologist pronounced my baby dead, shipped her to a morgue, for ME to find her breathing.....and they even said a well trained pediatrician should have done a check....so wt* was he at? i'd honestly have to say there are some serious discrepancies.....miracle or not, that baby was apparently alive, and b/c of someone's "rushing" she died.....true, she may have died anyways, but it really doesnt even seem like they tried until the father brought her back to the hospital.....
too bad an autopsy wasn't done, they'd have been able to see wether that baby's lungs had FULLY expanded, and that would mean she'd taken breaths....from what a nurse friend of mine(who used to work L&D said), they were taught the lungs don't FULLY expand, unless the baby has taken in enough air to FILL the lungs.....and if that baby had taken a full breath, she was viable.....and should have been "hooked up" for alot more monitoring, before just sent off to the morgue....i don't know, i honestly think i would sue if a gynecologist pronounced my baby dead, shipped her to a morgue, for ME to find her breathing.....and they even said a well trained pediatrician should have done a check....so wt* was he at? i'd honestly have to say there are some serious discrepancies.....miracle or not, that baby was apparently alive, and b/c of someone's "rushing" she died.....true, she may have died anyways, but it really doesnt even seem like they tried until the father brought her back to the hospital.....
Just in case you can't open it here's the story!!!!
The miscarried fetus who was supposedly brought "dead" to a hospital morgue and started moving when taken by her father for burial on Monday was not a "medical miracle," says a leading Jerusalem neonatologist. The infant, weighing 610 grams and born after 23 weeks of gestation, breathed her last breath on Tuesday morning despite doctors' frantic efforts to save her. She was buried in the Western Galilee village of Kafr Yassif later in the day.
The mother who miscarried on Monday after five months of pregnancy.
Photo: Channel 2
Slideshow: Pictures of the week Prof. Arthur Eidelman, who was head of the neonatal unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center between 1978 and 2003 and then head of the pediatrics department for a few more years, told The Jerusalem Post that such immature infants have very slow and irregular heartbeats and breathing cycles, and that the baby "didn't die and come back to life." Eidelman, who based his assessment of the unusual case at Nahariya's Western Galilee Government Hospital solely on media reports, said a well-trained pediatrician should have checked the miscarried fetus rather than the two hospital gynecologists who pronounced her dead.
The baby died at 5.15 a.m. in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. The parents, Faiza and Ali Mardub, expressed their sorrow over the death of their baby, whom they had named Bana Hiba. The father carried his daughter, wrapped in a white shroud, to her tiny grave in the village's Muslim cemetery and recited prayers. The grave was covered with sage leaves and flowers. Mourners - only men attended the funeral - said they hoped lessons would be learned and accounts taken by hospital doctors. Hospital director Dr. Mas'ud Barhood expressed his sorrow over the sad case and sent his condolences to the family.
The father recalled that his 26-year-old wife realized that the baby was then alive when she visited the morgue to see her for the last time some six hours after delivery. "When we unwrapped the baby to see her, she realized it was moving. I began screaming and ran with it toward the doctors," he said. She was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, where doctors fought for her life. But the survival of such an immature baby, whether she was in an incubator or a cooler in the morgue, was very unlikely, said Eidelman. "It was a borderline case," he said, adding that she almost inevitably would have suffered from severe disability if she had lived.
Dr. Moshe Daniel, the hospital's deputy director, had said after her moving in the morgue was reported, that in his 35 years as a physician, he had "never heard of such a case. It was like a medical miracle." The hospital informed the Health Ministry, which will investigate the case with an external investigation committee; the hospital will conduct its own investigation as well. The ministry said it will consider whether to issue additional guidelines after the tragic case.
Eidelman said that at Shaare Zedek, doctors know they must leave such immature infants in the delivery room for at least 20 minutes to try to detect a heartbeat and respiration. "A fetus develops a heartbeat only around the 16th week, so at 23 weeks it is still very slow. Five minutes or more can pass before such a premature baby's heart beats or takes a breath. After 20 minutes without such a sign of life, doctors let nature take its course, and the baby is presumed dead and taken to the morgue.
But she didn't die in the morgue and then didn't spontaneously come back to life, he said with assurance. "This is nonsense. There was no miracle. Putting a live miscarried fetus in the cooler slows down the metabolism, so it remains in suspended animation. In fact, there is now a new treatment for viable premature babies to put them in a cooler to perpetuate this suspended animation and protect the brain from damage," said Eidelman.
The miscarried fetus who was supposedly brought "dead" to a hospital morgue and started moving when taken by her father for burial on Monday was not a "medical miracle," says a leading Jerusalem neonatologist. The infant, weighing 610 grams and born after 23 weeks of gestation, breathed her last breath on Tuesday morning despite doctors' frantic efforts to save her. She was buried in the Western Galilee village of Kafr Yassif later in the day.
The mother who miscarried on Monday after five months of pregnancy.
Photo: Channel 2
Slideshow: Pictures of the week Prof. Arthur Eidelman, who was head of the neonatal unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center between 1978 and 2003 and then head of the pediatrics department for a few more years, told The Jerusalem Post that such immature infants have very slow and irregular heartbeats and breathing cycles, and that the baby "didn't die and come back to life." Eidelman, who based his assessment of the unusual case at Nahariya's Western Galilee Government Hospital solely on media reports, said a well-trained pediatrician should have checked the miscarried fetus rather than the two hospital gynecologists who pronounced her dead.
The baby died at 5.15 a.m. in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. The parents, Faiza and Ali Mardub, expressed their sorrow over the death of their baby, whom they had named Bana Hiba. The father carried his daughter, wrapped in a white shroud, to her tiny grave in the village's Muslim cemetery and recited prayers. The grave was covered with sage leaves and flowers. Mourners - only men attended the funeral - said they hoped lessons would be learned and accounts taken by hospital doctors. Hospital director Dr. Mas'ud Barhood expressed his sorrow over the sad case and sent his condolences to the family.
The father recalled that his 26-year-old wife realized that the baby was then alive when she visited the morgue to see her for the last time some six hours after delivery. "When we unwrapped the baby to see her, she realized it was moving. I began screaming and ran with it toward the doctors," he said. She was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, where doctors fought for her life. But the survival of such an immature baby, whether she was in an incubator or a cooler in the morgue, was very unlikely, said Eidelman. "It was a borderline case," he said, adding that she almost inevitably would have suffered from severe disability if she had lived.
Dr. Moshe Daniel, the hospital's deputy director, had said after her moving in the morgue was reported, that in his 35 years as a physician, he had "never heard of such a case. It was like a medical miracle." The hospital informed the Health Ministry, which will investigate the case with an external investigation committee; the hospital will conduct its own investigation as well. The ministry said it will consider whether to issue additional guidelines after the tragic case.
Eidelman said that at Shaare Zedek, doctors know they must leave such immature infants in the delivery room for at least 20 minutes to try to detect a heartbeat and respiration. "A fetus develops a heartbeat only around the 16th week, so at 23 weeks it is still very slow. Five minutes or more can pass before such a premature baby's heart beats or takes a breath. After 20 minutes without such a sign of life, doctors let nature take its course, and the baby is presumed dead and taken to the morgue.
But she didn't die in the morgue and then didn't spontaneously come back to life, he said with assurance. "This is nonsense. There was no miracle. Putting a live miscarried fetus in the cooler slows down the metabolism, so it remains in suspended animation. In fact, there is now a new treatment for viable premature babies to put them in a cooler to perpetuate this suspended animation and protect the brain from damage," said Eidelman.
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