You know things aren't starting well when your mother lies about your
age when you haven't even been born yet. But that's exactly what
Sonja Taylor did when she went into labor with her daughter Amillia at
just 19 weeks gestation, knowing as she did that babies under 22 weeks
have practically zero chance of survival and aren't even
resuscitated. Sonja must have been really tapped into that
mother's intuition-thing though, knowing somehow that her tiny daughter (weighing just 10 ounces! and the length of a
pen!) would be okay, because Amillia was born and she did survive,
responding medically in ways that she "shouldn't" have given her
world-record youngest gestational age of just 21 weeks and 6 days.
Not
that I advocate lying like that, but....wow. Aren't humans
wonderful? The whole thing just amazes me. (Though I shudder to
think of what all this cost) Amillia goes home today after four
months in intensive care.
