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23 week babies : the price of life ?
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the above programme on bbc 2 tonight, did anyone watch it, i found it very thought provoking .
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Preserving life at all costs is not a good ideal to have.
Some babies (human as well as animal) are just not meant to be, like we often say a puppy is the runt of the litter.
If you keep alive babies born too early you are setting them up for a lifetime of medical problems and often requiring lifetime support.
So the parents of these premature children often have to spend a lot of THEIR life looking after a baby and child that was not meant to survive.
My wife works with special needs children and often the ones with severe problems are those that were born early.
I am afraid we have to be hard hearted about it and just let some premature babies die.
Some babies (human as well as animal) are just not meant to be, like we often say a puppy is the runt of the litter.
If you keep alive babies born too early you are setting them up for a lifetime of medical problems and often requiring lifetime support.
So the parents of these premature children often have to spend a lot of THEIR life looking after a baby and child that was not meant to survive.
My wife works with special needs children and often the ones with severe problems are those that were born early.
I am afraid we have to be hard hearted about it and just let some premature babies die.
i watched some of it, but it was a bit too close to watch much (before my daughter was stillborn there was a possibility they might have delivered her, but she would ahve been very small so we decided against it). The couple with the man with tattoos on his neck made me very sad - when they were trying to explain to them about not resuscitating and they kept saying "i'm not turning the machines off"
If anyone remembers, what happened to matilda (the daughter of the police pair)?
If anyone remembers, what happened to matilda (the daughter of the police pair)?
my head says, given all the research re the viability of a baby born at 23 weeks. and my experience of working in a neonatal unit, id say there should be a " cut off" point when resuscitation is not done...................but my heart says ive never had to look into the eyes of my baby who was born at 23 weeks gestation and alive.. it was a great piece of television, but really sad.
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