December 22, 2004
World's Tiniest Baby Doing Well
The baby, named Rumaisa, weighed 8.6 ounces - less than a can of soda...
Madeline Mann, the previous record holder (at 9.9 ounces) as smallest known surviving preemie, returned to Loyola (University Medical Center) Hospital earlier this year for a celebration. Now 15, she was described as a lively honor student, though small for her age, at 4-feet-7.
According to the hospital, more than 1,700 newborns weighing less than 2 pounds have been cared for there in the past 20 years.
Stephen Davidow, a hospital spokesman, said a routine delivery costs about $6,000, while caring for a premature baby costs about $5,000 a day. Rumaisa, who has been in the hospital 90 days, is covered by Medicaid, hospital officials said.
~If they can get them all this small child-birth would be less of an imposition, less of a health risk for women.
Posted by Cieciel at December 22, 2004 12:49 PM