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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.

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Baby popping is tough work, and everything leading up to it is a pain in the, um, vagina. The uterus and whole lower half of the body gets all weird, breasts get super tender… it sucks. Yualin’s Hau Sheng Hospital in Taiwan now has a Hello Kitty-themed maternity ward in hopes of brightening the spirits of those in pain or super stressed out.

Director Tsai Tsung-chi opened up the hospital on his own dime — it comes out to 3 million US dollars — because his mom likes the cat. And his wife. And his daughter.

THERE’S A SLIDESHOW OF PICTURES YES clicky ~here~ to see three more pictures.

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