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EllieBC

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4. My oldest came in at 700g which is about a pound and a half.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 09:41 PM
Jun 2025

That was in 2010. She’s 15 now and regularly makes me question all of my life‘s choices because she has never met a point she has not wanted to argue with me.😐

As a 24 weeker she had about a 50-50 shot of surviving. She was in the Nicu for four months and one of those months was on a ventilator.

There were some other micropreemies in that NICU who were smaller than her who also made it. So there’s a lot of factors that go into whether or not that child could make it. But at the end of the day that woman should not have been kept alive just to be an incubator.

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