SMALLEST BABY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 9

SMALLEST BABY

LIVES AFTER LONG FIGHT ONE POUND 10 OUNCES AT BIRTH VANCOUVER, Nov. 16. A miracle of science was jporfonnod in Vancouver during the past three months. As a result a mother and father took from Graco Hospital last week their three-month-old baby, a fairly normal infant of 7^lb. When tho child was born on August 7 it, weighed, just ono pound 10 ounces, probably the smallest baby to survive birth in this city.

How that baby was kept alive for this first few. weeks, and how it gained almost two pounds a week, is ono of the miraclds performed in city hospitals of to-day, It’s salvation took almost the entire time of .ono of Vancouver’s baby specialists and a nurse. , Placed in its. own. specially equipped room ,in a baby incubator, ’with an even temperature of 90 degrees, .it was fed evpry few minutes. Blood traps-, fusions,* sometimes, front, the doctor, sometimes from the nurse, wero mficle to bring it to • normal, . for all the necessary organs are not functioning properly at: this ago. * It was two weeks.before the mother knew her child had lived,if or .it was a case pf almost resurrecting life in this’ little mite. For 10 days oxygen and carbon dioxide were giv6n in order to maintain life. • Finally care was , rewarded and .the baby showed signs of strength: Tho temperature. 1 of the 'incubator-was lowered towards normal .and eventually, three months from tho, time, of its birth, the child' was taken home. . . ,