We are often happy with news as surprising as Melinda's, a baby born with 270 grams who has managed to get ahead. Without a doubt, it is the best Christmas gift for your parents, who can take your little one home in the next few days.
Melinda was born at 24 weeks gestation due to a problem of hypertension of the mother, a complication of pregnancy related to premature births. There are premature babies born with fewer weeks, but of course the most worrisome was the low weight of the girl: just 270 grams.
A problem with the placenta, the organ that nourishes the fetus during its development, prevented the girl from growing as she should, forcing her to be born by caesarean section with a weight below what was expected for her gestational age.
Almost no child with that weight survives and hopes were practically nil, but the evolution has been so positive that doctors consider it a miracle.
The girl was born last summer and spent all these months in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Los Angeles hospital. Critical moments have passed, but the worst has been surgery that he had to undergo to close an artery that usually closes after birth. One more test that has managed to overcome.
Is the third smallest baby in the world that manages to survive the first months of life, and although it is still too early to know, it is likely that there will be consequences of prematurity such as blindness, deafness or delay.
It has been a few hard months for Melinda and her parents, but fortunately the baby born with 270 grams has managed to get ahead And the story has had a happy ending.
