{"id":258039,"date":"2021-11-30T08:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258039"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T00:02:12","slug":"premature-22-weeks-sandwich-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/premature-22-weeks-sandwich-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Little warrior’ baby born at 22 weeks placed in sandwich bag for warmth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baby Eris was born at just 22 weeks weighing the same as a small can of soup \u2014 one pound, one ounce. She was so tiny, doctors placed her into a plastic sandwich bag in hopes of keeping her vital organs warm. Now her parents say she is “stable” and “happy.”<\/p>\n

Her mother Cayce had previously suffered a stillbirth, reported Metro<\/a>, and doctors stitched her cervix closed during her pregnancy with Eris in order to prevent preterm labor. She was also given progesterone injections beginning at 16 weeks.<\/p>\n

“At 19 weeks, the doctors found that I was already dilated by two centimetres,” explained Cayce. “I managed to last another three weeks, which helped us to get Eris over the threshold where medical staff could intervene to save her life.”<\/p>\n

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