{"id":232084,"date":"2020-10-05T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232084"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:15:46","slug":"premature-baby-22-weeks-home-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/premature-baby-22-weeks-home-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Premature baby born at 22 weeks goes home after four months in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to Nola.com<\/a>, a baby boy born prematurely at just 22 weeks and two days is heading home from the hospital after four months in the NICU. Russell William Appold, Jr. was born weighing about one pound after his mother Natasha went into premature labor. Doctors said he had just a 14% chance of surviving. He is the first baby to survive at Tulane Lakeside Hospital in Louisiana after being born at such a young age.<\/p>\n

“We take care of a lot of small babies,” said Dr. Lisa Barbiero, a neonatologist at Tulane Lakeside Hospital. “The difference is we haven’t had a survivor at this early of a gestation.” Twenty-four weeks is still considered the age of viability in many hospitals, but babies born as young as 21 weeks<\/a> have survived and the number of hospitals<\/a> helping babies born at 22 weeks is growing. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a> in 2015 found that the willingness to treat babies that young varies greatly across the nation.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0FACT CHECK: Planned Parenthood does commit abortions after viability<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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