{"id":176693,"date":"2017-12-22T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=176693"},"modified":"2017-12-22T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:04:51","slug":"premature-baby-survives-23-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/premature-baby-survives-23-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Britain’s tiniest premature babies survives at 23 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the United Kingdom, healthy preborn babies can be aborted<\/a> up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. But little Arthur Brumby proves just how wrong this is. Arthur, a premature baby, is one of the youngest to ever survive in Britain, born at just 23 weeks<\/a>. He weighed just 1 pound, 2 ounces.<\/p>\n

His parents, James Brumby and Laura Hillary, both have health problems that doctors believe could affect their fertility. Brumby has Crohn’s disease, and doctors said the treatment he was undergoing could prevent him from being able to have a baby. Hillary was found to have pre-cancerous cells on her cervix, which were burned away. She also has endometriosis. Brumby and Hillary got engaged, and not long after, discovered they were, against all odds, pregnant. “I couldn’t believe it,” Hillary said. “We’d not been using contraceptives for years, as we were told it was unlikely it would happen naturally.” The ecstatic couple had the pregnancy confirmed, but doctors soon discovered that Hillary’s cervix was shorter than the average cervix, putting her at risk of miscarriage. By 20 weeks, however, little Arthur was still growing strong.<\/p>\n