Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag 246
Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but she fit into a plastic sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen — it's incredible to think that saved her life," says her mom.
Re:Fetus in a bag (Score:5, Insightful)
One or none?
Pffft, it's just a mass of cells ... (Score:0, Insightful)
Hmmm, a second trimester baby living(so far). Now why are the pro-choice folks so adamant about NOT outlawing 3rd trimester abortions*?
*Special cases excluded of course.
Re:Fetus in a bag (Score:5, Insightful)
Just wait... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Just wait... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Just wait... (Score:3, Insightful)
You're right. Parents lose their sense of humor awfully quick. Just one more reason not to be a parent.
Human brain activity fetus (Score:2, Insightful)
If human brain activity exists then I don't see how the child can be called a fetus.
At what point in development does human brain activity typically begin?
Re:Is the Story Real? (Score:2, Insightful)
Your reading comprehension is an abysmal joke.
I concede that the aggregate IMR in the US is surprisingly high, and then i discuss why that is (Based on the findings in the oft-cited research). I further explain that for premature babies, the US IMR is one of the best in the world.
I lay all of this out in my post.
I am very worried that you feel comfortable arguing with people based on pushing aggregate statistics from other sources when you have not displayed the ability to comprehend what you have read.
Re:0% (Score:3, Insightful)
you came off as an idiot who tries too hard to smart.
Lessons of the internet, part 1:
When insulting the intelligence of another, make sure your grammar doesn't fail at life.
Re:I'd like to see the itemized medical bill (Score:2, Insightful)
It was in the UK. The fully itemised bill looks like this:
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Total: £0.00
Re:I'd like to see the itemized medical bill (Score:3, Insightful)
No, more like:
Sandwich bag: $0.15
Bag overhead fee: $3.80 (the rest of the box)
Emergency courier fee: $15,000 (guy running a block to the 7-11)
Re:I'd like to see the itemized medical bill (Score:1, Insightful)
Or just finish it off, and let the gov't take 100% of your income, and let them decide where you live, what you own, and where you work.
Re:Just wait... (Score:3, Insightful)
Aren't you glad your parents weren't thinking that way?
Re:Just wait... (Score:5, Insightful)
Not really. If they chose not to have me, I wouldn't mind at all. Since I wouldn't have a mind.
Re:Is the Story Real? (Score:3, Insightful)
> this is an accurate portrayal of medicine in the UK
It was a national UK newspaper *story*. What do you think?
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Re:Pffft, it's just a mass of cells ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh for crying out loud, where do you people come from? Seriously. Do you really believe that there's this big group of people out there who just like killing babies for sport?
No. Special means cases where risk to the mother is significantly higher than would normally be expected. There are no doctors out there just rubbing their hands together and laughing maniacally about how many otherwise viable children they intend to kill off in needless third trimester abortions. If a woman is told at a late stage in her pregnancy that it looks like it's going to be either her or the baby, but not both that will survive, that's a horrible moment in her life. Some may choose to risk it all for the sake of the baby, but you have no right to act all superior and expect that she'll lay down her life for that child, who may not live either. You don't even have the courage to post under anything other than Anonymous Coward, so don't expect me to believe that you're so brave that you'd forfeit, or even risk, your life without a second thought.
Further, do you really think that pregnant women typically carry a baby for 6 or 7 months and suddenly decide, "naaah, I don't want one of these after all". There are not swarms of women in the last stages of pregnancy flocking to abortion clinics just for the fun of having an abortion. I won't say that it can't or doesn't *ever* happen, but a woman experiencing a healthy pregnancy, with a healthy baby is not at all likely to seek a late term abortion for no apparent reason.
Re:Is the Story Real? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I'd like to see the itemized medical bill (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Just wait... (Score:1, Insightful)
B) Well, being wanted, plus $50,000 in medical care during the first year (and probably more; that's the average for all premature births), several weeks of incubation before it became viable and the on-going potential for life-long medical complications. NICU's are an imperfect reproduction of the womb. If you look at the picture, there is clearly the potential to become a human being, but just because it's left the womb doesn't mean it is. Even with that medical care, there was still a 90% chance that this would be an abortion.
It just goes to show, we ought to be paying women $50,000 for the last 14 weeks of carrying an infant. It should work out to about $20 an hour.