‘Smallest’ baby survives
A premature baby, who weighed only 450 gm at birth, was discharged from a Mohali hospital today. The baby weighed 1.4 kg today. With this the baby has become “India’s smallest baby to survive” such a medical condition, claimed doctors.
For Rajni and her husband, it was the God’s gift to see their three-month-old child survive the odds and come home from the neonatal ICU of Fortis Hospital.
Briefing mediapersons Dr Sunil K Agrawal, consultant and head, neonatology, said babies with a weight less than 500 gm have a bleak chance of survival.
Rajni’s baby, born on April 21, nearly three months prematurely, required respiratory support (ventilation) for nearly 15 days before she could breathe on her own. ”Thereafter, we had to put her on artificial oxygen for another 12 days, apart from providing intravenous nutrition for the first two weeks, till she became stable,”€Dr Agrawal said.
She was able to start drinking from a spoon only after about 10 weeks of the birth. He said there was no reported survival of a baby of this weight in India. “The earlier record, based on various reports published in this regard, was of a baby weighing 495 gm from Pune in October 2010,”he claimed.
It’s too early to know how she will fare when she grows up. She did not have any major complications,€ he said. Rajni, who is in her mid-thirties, got lucky the fourth time after having undergone three failed pregnancies. — OC
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