{"id":128061,"date":"2016-10-11T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=128061"},"modified":"2016-10-11T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:11:55","slug":"doctors-emie-wouldnt-live-but-she-celebrated-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctors-emie-wouldnt-live-but-she-celebrated-first-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors said Emie wouldn&#8217;t live, but she just celebrated her first birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Premature babies have a better chance of surviving outside the womb than ever before thanks to new medical technology focused on saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect instance is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/pregnancy-and-baby\/pages\/premature-baby-mum.aspx\">little baby Qais<\/a>, who was born at 25 weeks, but is\u00a0now two and a half years old, feisty, and sociable.\u00a0He&#8217;s got some developmental delay \u2013 he&#8217;s not walking, but he loves swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Little Emie Scott is another such\u00a0example. The UK baby celebrated her first birthday last week after she was born weighing just 1 pound 11 ounces, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/local\/14790919.Meet_miracle_baby_Emie_who_weighed_1lb_11oz_at_birth_and_has_defied_odds_to_celebrate_first_birthday\/\">the Swindon Advertiser reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fswindonadvertiser%2Fposts%2F1095538797166718&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"486\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, doctors asked Emie&#8217;s parents, Jo and Chris Scott, to consider having an abortion after they noticed that Emie was much smaller than she was supposed to be, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>At first, doctors thought Emie might have Down syndrome, but a test ruled out that possibility. Because the unborn girl was so small for her age, doctors later thought she might have triploidy, a rare chromosomal disorder that usually is fatal, the report states. At one point, the Scotts said doctors predicted that Emie\u2019s chances of dying were 85 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/10\/10\/baby-born-at-just-1-pound-11-ounces-celebrates-1st-birthday-after-parents-rejected-abortion\/\">According to LifeNews.com<\/a>, the family rejected doctors\u2019 suggestions to have an abortion and clung to the hope that their daughter would live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said no, I\u2019m not going down that route. If she dies nature will take its course, but I was not going to be the one who did it,\u201d Jo said.<\/p>\n<p>Jo, who works as a midwife, said she could feel Emie wiggling around in her womb, and it gave her hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tell women that an active baby is a healthy baby,\u201d she said. \u201cAt the scans, she was moving so much, even the nurses were surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, more problems arose. One pregnancy scan found that Jo\u2019s placenta was not attached properly, a reason for Emie\u2019s small size. Then at 31 weeks of pregnancy, Emie had to be delivered prematurely because Jo developed a rare, life-threatening liver and blood clotting disorder, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Emie was born on Oct. 5, weighing just 1 pound, 11 ounces, according to the report. She spent more than two months in the hospital but made it home in time for Christmas, her family said. Last week, the family celebrated Emie\u2019s first birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd2\"><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_BY_250_mid_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179101244-0\" class=\"ArticleAd2a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179101244-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely nothing wrong with her other than the fact she is tiny. I can\u2019t believe she is a year old already,\u201d her mother said. \u201cShe\u2019s so cheeky. She will do things and she will smile at you whilst she\u2019s doing them because she knows she not supposed to be doing something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tiny premature babies like Emie are defying the odds and surviving outside the womb more than ever before. BabyCenter.com\u00a0even has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/preemie-success-stories-gallery\">entire photo gallery<\/a> dedicated to displaying preemie success stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1410689\">A study published in<\/a> 2015 in the New England Journal of Medicine provides more hope for families of premature infants. The researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/05\/21\/new-study-sows-premature-babies-can-survive-at-earlier-ages-but-will-hospitals-let-them-die\/\">found that 23 percent of infants<\/a> born after just 22 weeks in the womb survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premature babies have a better chance of surviving outside the womb than ever before thanks to new medical technology focused on saving lives. A perfect instance is little baby Qais, who was born at 25 weeks, but is\u00a0now two and a half years old, feisty, and sociable.\u00a0He&#8217;s got some developmental delay \u2013 he&#8217;s not walking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":90991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9455],"tags":[1039,9476,9477,5301],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doctors said Emie wouldn&#039;t live, but she just celebrated her first birthday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doctors thought Emie had a rare, fatal chromosomal disorder, and predicted that her chances of dying were 85 percent. 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