Re: Brain Dead Va. Woman Gives Birth To Daughter


Carmen wrote:
> 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.

Nice info!
Thanks Carmen


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