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Gogo Taylor Rideout!

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a five minute video interview with the baby’s parents (Brittany Rideout and Adam Bouchat) and doctors. She’s been in the hospital 80 days because she was born at only 26 weeks of gestation — that’s 14 weeks, or 3.5 months premature. She was ten inches long.

Her mother, Brittany, had strokes and other complications from the the pregnancy, forcing an early birth or face the deaths of the mom and baby. Brittany has lupus.

Taylor’s survival is a milestone for the hospital. She’s the tiniest ever to survive in its history. She’s at two pounds now and will be allowed to go home in a week or so.

the video PP-G doesn’t ~do~ embedding
the article PP-G

A boy born in Colorado Springs had surgery two and a half months ago to remove a tumor in his brain. His mother’s doctor found fluid in his brain during an ultrasound, and scheduled an emergency c-section to take care of it at 41 weeks (that’s about 9 months anyway). Sam Esquibel was born looking fine and dandy. After confirming the tumor with an MRI, they opened up his head at 3 days old to take care of what appeared to be a tumor. You know, the regular-type mass of cells that shouldn’t be where it is. They found this little guy inside:

The tumor had a this fully formed foot and thigh, another foot, and a hand. Keep in mind these are super small, as they were removed from a small tumor in a baby’s head. It’s been two and a half months, and Sam is almost totally healed at this point. He has some physical therapy to be scheduled for his neck and head, but besides that, he’s okay!

reported by the Denver Post
AP release
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