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Originally Posted by Dave
Like in week nine and a few days?
Even still...that's if one believes that the data was recorded honestly (yeah, right!).
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Er - if you don't believe the data were recorded honestly, why did you post that graph in support of your argument?
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Baby Dusty at two weeks three days of age. This was during one of the times where they pulled him off the respirator and had put him on the CPAP, he was doing well on CPAP so they decided to try him on a nasal canula. It was actually the first time he ever ate by himself. My wife is the one feeding him. That would have been twenty three weeks four days gestation, as he was born at twenty one weeks one day gestation.
I have one of him somewhere from the day he was born, I was able to fit my wedding band all the way up his arm to the shoulder.
You can not see my hands in this picture, it was taken the same day, we were doing a form of kangaroo care where skin on skin contact is essential, but as he was still having problems maintaining body temp, had to stay wrapped in a blanket. Believe me, he fit in my hands about the same way as the child fits in the parents hands in the last picture.
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I did not dispute that a child born at 23 weeks gestation would be that SIZE, I just said it was a clever photo - designed to manipulate people. Your baby, born at 21 weeks and after two weeks of medical intervention, including drugs to help him breathe and survive, still was attached to tubes, incubators and under very intensive medical care at two weeks of age - it's NOT the equivalent to 23 weeks' gestation because he was already born and being assisted to survive, as are all babies born so prematurely. Their development is significantly advanced by medical intervention, and you cannot say that a child born at 23 weeks' gestation is going to look like the one in that picture.
It would look as your child looked - tiny, fragile, and attached to a myriad of machines to help it survive.
That photo makes it look like a perfect little baby pops out with no intervention needed, and one that would survive easily on its own without any help and would do just fine. Which is rubbish, as you know, from your own experience.
It's a misleading photo, it's propaganda, and people shouldn't be sucked in by it. Babies don't even open their eyes in utero until the 26th week - but they will if they are born too early. There is a lot that is different if a baby is that premature.
If that photo were realistic, all children would be born at 23 weeks gestation because all they would need to do is grow. This is not the case.