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Miracle Baby - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 18th Aug, 2007 - 2:20pm
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She weighed 11 ounces when was born after only 6 months in womb, had 10% of chances to survive but she did not give up. Now after 4 months, she is ready to go home.
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What a wonderful story! Who could have imagined that this super tiny little girl would survive? I am so happy for her and her family. 
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| TRENTON, N.J. - After almost four months of waiting, Tamera Dixon, who weighed less than a soda can when she was born on April 25, is ready to head home. Believed to be one of the smallest babies ever born in New Jersey, the Trenton preemie has spent most of her life in an incubator. ADVERTISEMENT Tamera weighed slightly more than 11 ounces and measured 10 inches when she was born after only 6 months in the womb. Now that she's 4 pounds, 8 ounces, doctors have given her the OK to go home with her parents. She was scheduled to leave the hospital Friday, but after the excitement of a news conference, hospital officials said she'll most likely head home Saturday. "It is a miracle, she is a miracle," her mother, Andrea Haws, said with a bright smile Friday as she held the baby girl she'd prayed for. "From when she was born, I think everyone knew she was a fighter," she said. "She's going to be a feisty little girl." Tamera was delivered by Caesarean section at 25 weeks - 15 weeks short of a normal gestation period. Haws had already experienced complications during her pregnancy, but when her kidneys started failing and Tamera stopped growing, doctors decided they couldn't wait any longer to deliver her. Haws, 40, recovered, but still spent most of her time at Capital Health System's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit visiting a child who she said at one point "didn't look like a human being." That's all changed for Tamera, who would have been about a week old on Friday had she arrived near her due date. While being fed on Thursday, the pink onesie-wearing bundle of energy wriggled in a nurse's arm and looked around the room attentively - her size the only sign of her past troubles. Dr. Stephen Moffitt, Tamera's doctor, said he's cautiously optimistic that she'll develop normally. "She's breathing perfectly well on her own," said Moffitt, adding that doctors gave Tamera a 10 to 15 percent chance of survival before she was born... |
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