`Micropreemie' baby who weighed just over 1 pound at birth goes home from Illinois hospital
A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after six months at a Chicago area hospital
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I would think that's a world record! Mind blown. 1lb, 1oz is hard to imagine. My ex and I are small and our 2 babies were 6-7x that size.
And this is why America shows abysmal rates of "babies not surviving". We try to save every one, even if hopeless, and those numbers count against us. (I'm so dumb, what's the word I'm looking for here?)
That is not why we have such bad statistics when it comes to infant mortality.
...because we put too much effort into trying to save them?
Correct. That is not why we have terrible infant mortality rates.
I'm wondering if they meant instead of aborting them sooner they are birthed and helped to survive where some wouldn't. I can't imagine any other way they could being thinking. In simple abortion = no increase to infant death rate vs no abortion = infant death rate
The idea is that if you attempt the riskier patients, you're more likely to fail. That's not the reason for our infant mortality rates being what they are, though. I remember seeing stories about the hospital in Gaza City shutting down, and there were similarly-sized babies in the NICU there too. I believe they were thankfully able to be evacuated into Egypt, but the point is we are not the only country birthing and subsequently caring for babies this size.
Infant mortality
Are you asking if instead of an abortion we are still bringing them to birth and try to save those that we can? The wording is very confusing.