This is an amazing story. Little Amillia was barely bigger than a ballpoint pen when she was born at 9.5 inches long and only 10 ounces!
Mom lied about how far along she was in order to get the docs to work to save the baby.
The medical standard is not even to resuscitate a 22-week baby, so when Sonja Taylor knew she was going into labor in October after just 19 weeks, she lied about the baby’s term.
Doctors worked to delay the birth, but nine days later, they had no choice but to perform an emergency C-section, thinking they were delivering a 23-week baby.
Way to go mom!
What an awesome story! It’d be cool to follow this story as she grows up and see how she does.
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It’s interesting how some would like to see this baby receive all the available medical treatment, while alzheimer’s patients, among others, are being denied treatments that can potential improve their quality of life.
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Musicguy:
Care to be more specific?
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stem cell research– which has the potential to cure alzheimer’s disease as well as paralysis.
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Musicguy – There’s a difference between the two.
We already have the technology to save that child’s life – and her life is proof of that!
Stem cell research is just that: research. Research that could potentially improve or save a life. But research, nonetheless.
You can’t seriously be comparing saving the life of a baby with the potential to save the life of someone else.
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I’m sure that Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeves, if he were still alive, would whole-heartedly agree with you.
Once upon a time, the technology that is saving this baby was mere research with the POTENTIAL to save a life. Thankfully, doctors somewhere were persistent and made the POTENTIAL a reality.
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It seems as if you are saying that you think this baby’s life shouldn’t have been saved.
If that was not your implication, I apologize. But that was what triggered my response to you.
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No! Save the baby, that’s fine, I suppose.
My issue is with those who will say “save the baby” but “don’t do anything to help Chris Reeves because it’s not guaranteed to work”.
That baby wasn’t guaranteed to live, but the effort was made. The same effort should be made in developing new technology to save those if us already living.
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The same effort should be made in developing new technology to save those if us already living.
Musicguy, The implication of your sentence is that you do not believe that this baby was “alive”. Interesting.
In regards to stem cell research, I assume you are referring to embryonic stem cell research, which, has to this point, shown no potential to cure anything whereas the use of umbilical stem cells and adult stem cells have shown significant potential to “save a life”.
As an aside, my other issue with embryonic stem cell (as well as many other types) of research is the asking of the taxpayers to fund said research. Just my opinion…
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“For those of us who have been living longer than nine months”
Better??
The argument of semantics is fun. People tend to avoid the real issue that way.
You’re correct, to this point, embryonic stem cells haven’t shown us much. Why is that?? Perhaps because funding has been cut off? Because those lines of stem cells availabe have become corrupt and rendered useless?
I don’t support the war in Iraq at all, yet MY tax dollars are being used to fund it. That’s life ina democracy! If I have to pay for the war, you’re going to gave to deal with the other.
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