Baby as small as pen when born to go home
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A premature baby only slightly longer than a ballpoint pen at birth was due to be sent home in the coming days from a Florida hospital after four months of neonatal intensive care, the hospital said on Tuesday.
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The first sign of trouble for little E.J. Davis came when he was still in his mom's womb. Hope Davis was six months into her first pregnancy when she went for a routine sonogram at Washington Hospital Center.
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NEW YORK  - Postnatal (after birth) growth   problems, especially when associated with prenatal (before   birth) growth problems, are linked to lower physical size,   cognitive scores, and academic achievement at age 8, according   to results of a study.
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NEW YORK  - Women with congenital heart disease who become pregnant face a heightened risk that their infant may be premature or not survive long, according to a report from the Netherlands.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A baby born this week in northeastern Brazil weighing nearly 17 pounds is "doing great," hospital officials said Friday.
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The baby is due in March next year but the couple do not know if it will be a boy or a girl. &quot;This is fantastic news,&quot; they said in a statement.
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NEW YORK  - After a dramatic leap in survival rates for very low birth weight babies up to 1997, there has been little change in survival or health for these infants since then, a new study shows.
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More than three-quarters of children who were born before the 26th week of pregnancy are affected by cognitive and neurologic impairments by the time they reach school age, British researchers report.
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Parents of one of the world's smallest premature babies got to take her home Wednesday for the first time since she was delivered last fall.
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SATURDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Planning ahead before pregnancy helps new moms give their babies the best possible start in life, experts say.
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LONDON -- Born prematurely at 26 weeks, weighing just one pound, 11-month-old Charlotte Wyatt has never left the hospital. She suffers from chronic respiratory and heart problems and severe brain damage. A feeding tube and a constant supply of oxygen help keep her alive.
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When a newborn baby girl was left in  Japan&#39;s controversial &quot;baby hatch&quot; last week, the child&#39;s life  may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents  were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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Jessica Carman knows about small. She can do CPR on a baby's chest no bigger than a lemon, using only her fingers. She can insert a tube no wider than a strand of spaghetti into a premature infant's trachea.
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The first 48 hours are critical, and as of Wednesday, 4-month old Abigail Patrick was half-way there. Meanwhile, her twin sister Shea waits for a donor heart.
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The world's most premature living baby, born at 21 weeks and six days, is headed home after spending four months in a neonatal intensive care unit, Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami announced.
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(HealthDay News) - First-time parents may be overwhelmed with new responsibilities, and may forget to ask for help with simple tasks such as changing a diaper.
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation