There are many premature babies who at birth are torn between life and death because of how small they are and there are many who, because they are too premature or weigh too little, also generate debate among the medical team that must decide if it makes sense or Don't fight for their lives.
According to the criteria that are followed in the United Kingdom to decide to continue with the care of a newborn baby, Maddalena should not be here. But nevertheless, Scissors that accompanied the girl when they weighed her they made doctors decide to help him in the fight for life.
Maddalena was born with 23 weeks gestation and the doctors were not sure if it was worth trying to save her, given the unlikely chance of survival. In the United Kingdom it is suggested that care not be given to those babies born at 22 weeks or earlier, or weighing less than a pound (453 grams).
By age there was no problem, because he was born for another week. However, the weight should be a minimum of one pound and, apparently, that was what weighed ... or rather, that was what the weighing scale said. Seeing that it reached the pound they decided to do the possible and the impossible to keep it alive. Once connected to the respirator and being stable, they realized that on the scale there were scissors. The actual weight of Maddalena was 382 grams.
Now the girl is six months old and has already been discharged from the Royal Sussex Hospital to lead a life, it is expected, just like any girl's. Hopefully it will be that way and I can always explain that she is alive because, for whatever reason, scissors They accompanied him in his first minutes of life.
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