sexta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2007

Will to live....

She was just eight inches long and her chances of survival were 1,000 to one against.

Yet tiny Kimberley Mueller clung defiantly to life - despite being born 15 weeks prematurely and weighing a mere 10 ounces.

No doctor in the world would have expected her to pull through.

But six months after this amazing first picture, Kimberley has been declared healthy enough to go home.

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She spent months in an incubator being drip-fed while a machine helped her breathe.

Cuddling her baby at home, mum Petra, 38, said: "I was allowed to stroke her with my finger. I always spoke to her. It was so nice when she gripped my finger in her tiny hands."

Kimberley had laser surgery to save her sight three months after her birth, in Hanover, Germany.

Chidbirth experts are hailing her survival as a miracle.

Great Ormond Street consultant Dr Arvind Shah said: "This is remarkable. She must be a little fighter."

Smallest surviving baby is thought to be Rumaisa Rahman, born at 8.6oz in Chicago in 2004. In the UK 800 a year arrive at under 25 weeks


Source...Daily Mirror

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