Baby Baby

[4gottenabout]

What chance has a baby got that was born weighing 1lb?

[happyjo]

Hi

It will depend on it's general health and how premature it was.

My friends baby was born at 2lb and he survived, he has some health issues but he is ok and has just started school.

Hope this is a hypothetical question, otherwise my fingers are crossed for the little thing! x

Jo x

[daffy654]

It would depend mostly on what week of pregnancy it was born and how well developed it's lungs are,but I would say a 1lb baby doesn't have much chance unfortunately. I have heard of them surviving at not much over that though.

[4gottenabout]

well I'm not sure at what week they were born I think almost full term, but dont know if they'd survive really

[redcrx]

almost full term and weighing 1lb? If thats true then i wouldnt hold out much hope as there must be something seriously wrong for them to be that weight and gestation.

But who knows, there are some amazing stories of babys surviving against all odds.

[4gottenabout]

well alot to do with the mother I would have thought, she's on methadone. I just heard she'd had a baby that weighed 1lb, may not be true and could just be hearsay.

[redcrx]

awwww the poor little mite. I hope it isnt true but if it is and baby survives, I hope he/she gets placed with a 'mum' who will care for it.

[4gottenabout]

yer I hope so too. as this girl cant look after herself let alone a baby

[someonesgirl]

I was about that i think! My mum said i weighed the same as a bag of sugar! I was 3 months prem cos mum was really ill and they had to take me out. apparently i had no eyebrows, fingernails, toenails and i looked like a little rabbit! my nan used to knit me hats and test them on a jaffa orange (cos thats how big my head was) I spent the first months of my life in an incubator. They didnt let me leave the hospital until i was 5 pounds. I dont think ive suffered any adverse effects apart from asthma (as my lungs werent developed enough, but thats controlled and id say i wasnt very academic in school, but now im a support worker and drugs counsellor so i havent done too bad to turn it around!) Or maybe im just lucky, she had a boy on her first pregnancy who was a week more prem than me and he didnt make it (died at 3 weeks old).

[4gottenabout]

a little rabbit, how cute :-)

[someonesgirl]

hahaha! i looked gross! theres a photo of me in my hot box on the wall at my mums and my nappy is bigger than my head : (

[4gottenabout]

I was a huge baby

[aka pixi]

My daughters friends baby was born at 22/23 weeks, I think she weighed just over a pound. Although she was in hospital for the first year of her life she is now about 3 years old and has just started nursery. She still has health problems but just looking at her she is like any other kid her age.

aww at someonesgirl having no finger/toe nails when you were born, my son was born at about 32 weeks and although he was a good weight (5lb 6oz) he didnt have any either

[Goodsoulette]

50 percent of babies weighing 1lb 2oz to 3lbs don't survive. Mainly they have problems with respiritory problems.

Methadone has no reported cases of birth defects and research has demonstrated that the effects of inutero exposure to Methadone are relatively benign. A pregnant women cant just withdraw as it would most likely cause a spontaneous abortion. If she was still using heroin then that would explain the poor fetal growth but I would imagine there would be evidence to suggest this and she would either be in a mother and baby unit or unable to take her baby home (well thats what happens here anyway).

1lb at full term sounds unheard of to me.

[4getmenot]

yer she probably was still using too

[bigmamma]

I was 2lbs when I was born , in the lounge room at home , the doc had told mum it was only wind when mum had said she thought baby was on the way . I was the 7th so she should know. Anyway , dad ran for the midwife at night and out I popped . I was tiny and the doc just left me with mum to die saying no way would I live. Well doc , na na na na na ......
On the other hane in my days working in a neonatal unit , the smallest surviving baby we had was 750gms .:-)

[bigmamma]

hand *

[redcrx]

oh bigmamma, that mustve been so awful for your mum to have been left like that but I presume it was a little while ago ;) and things were different back then.

750gms is 1.5lbs roughly and that is teeny

[joko]

my brother has just had twins, one at about 2and half pounds and the other at about 3 and a half.
They seem ok, just tiny scraps.
They were 5 weeks early.

Do you think they are well developed and healthy but just small because they are a month early and twins or are they not in a good way...?

[4getmenot]

small because their mother is a scag head

[4getmenot]

the woman I;m on about not your brothers partner