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Updated: 5:37 PM Feb 21, 2007
Tiny Baby Goes Home For The First Time
One of the world’s smallest premature babies ahs gone home for the first time since she was delivered in October. Posted: 9:00 PM Feb 21, 2007 |
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(February 21, 2007)--The parents of tiny Amillia Taylor have taken her home from the hospital for the first time since the baby was delivered last fall.
Amillia spent less than 22 weeks in the womb.
She was just nine and a-half inches at birth, and weighed less than ten ounces.
She now weighs about four and a-half pounds, and is just over 15 and a-half inches long.
She'll still need oxygen at home and a developmental specialist will be keeping track of her neurological progress.
Doctors at Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami had hoped to release Amillia Tuesday, but kept her an extra day to monitor a low white blood cell count that could have indicated she's vulnerable to infection.
Doctors say she's the first baby known to survive after a gestation period of fewer than 23 weeks.
She's suffered respiratory and digestive problems, and a mild brain hemorrhage, but doctors don't think those problems will have any major long-term effects.
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