'Miracle baby': Born at 21 weeks, she may be the most premature surviving infant
Nov. 9, 2017 at 12:48 PM
A. Pawlowski
The baby girl weighed less than a pound when she was born just 21 weeks into Courtney Stensrud’s pregnancy. Infants that tiny and undeveloped aren’t expected to survive outside the womb, but her mother insisted that she be resuscitated.
The Texas girl — who is now 3 — appears to be making medical history.
Her doctors believe she is the most premature surviving baby ever reported. Her case means they can no longer say death is certain for babies delivered at 21 weeks’ gestation, “though it remains highly probable,” wrote Dr. Kaashif Ahmad, a MEDNAX-affiliated neonatologist at the Pediatrix Medical Group of San Antonio, this month in the journal Pediatrics.
https://www.today.com/health/born-21-weeks-she-may-be-most-premature-surviving-baby-t118610
