When Fatima Goines went into labor at 22 weeks, doctors at Methodist Hospital in Minneapolis told her no hospital could save her baby, that they would deliver her daughter, and that she would be able to hold her infant until she died.
The determined mother, however, left Methodist Hospital and instead checked into a birthing center just seven miles away – one associated with Children’s Minnesota Hospital. After Goines gave birth to her daughter there, Me’Lonii was intubated and placed in an incubator.
The infant’s four-month stay in the NICU included closing a hole in an artery near her heart and observing her gain weight.
Four years later, Me’Lonii is a healthy little girl who has “surpassed all the developmental milestones for her age,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
“She’s doing wonderfully well,” Dr. Thomas George, who directs the Children’s Minnesota neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), told the Journal.
According to the report, doctors are now able to save babies born as early as between 21 and 22 weeks with the aid of “improved techniques to help tiny lungs develop and protect fragile skin and organs.” […]
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