Re: Brain Dead Va. Woman Gives Birth To Daughter


Hi,
On 3-Aug-2005, netuser_axel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Whogus the Whatsler wrote:
> > <netuser_axel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1123041121.211532.209460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > tiny dancer wrote:
> > >> Brain Dead Va. Woman Gives Birth To Daughter
> > >>
> > >> POSTED: 6:33 pm EDT August 2, 2005
> > >>
> > >> RICHMOND, Va. -- Family members say a brain-dead Virginia woman
> > >> has given
> > >> birth to a baby girl.
> > >>
> > >> Susan Torres has been kept alive on life support since May so
> > >> that her
> > >> unborn baby could grow.
> > >>
> > >> The word comes via e-mail from the woman's brother-in-law, who
> > >> wrote that
> > >> the baby is named Susan for her mother and that there were no
> > >> complications
> > >> during the delivery. Baby Susan weighs just under 2 pounds and
> > >> is 13.5
> > >> inches long.
> > >
> > > "2lbs"? I wonder if the baby was carried a full nine months, or
> > > if this
> > > birth with "no complications" was premature?
> > >
> >
> > The baby was born two months prem.
>
> Is an under 2lb birthweight normal even for a 2mo premie?
> Just asking; I don't know - but at 2lbs, would the additional 2mos
> to
> term have made that much of a difference in the baby's final birth
> weight?
>
> I know a baby's birthweight is relative to the mother's health, so
> who knows - perhaps 2lb births are the average for babies born to
> comatose mothers? Interesting.

Okay, I had to know the answer so I looked it up. The birth weight
was given as 1 pound, 13 ounces = .82 kg. Merck has a chart online
for expected range of weight given gestational age for a fetus in
utero:
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/figures/260fig1.jsp
The news stories state the fetal age is estimated by doctors to be ~7
months, or 28 weeks. Using the chart, the baby is within the expected
appropriate weight for that gestational age. McMystery solved.

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