Bayi Paling Prematur Selamat

Bayi paling prematur di dunia

Sumber :BBC Online


Amillia Taylor
Amillia Taylor, bayi paling prematur yang lahir selamat

Di Amerika Serikat, bayi yang lahir setelah baru 22 minggu di kandungan ibu diperbolehkan meninggalkan rumah sakit. Tim dokter di sebuah rumah sakit di Miami yakin bayi Amillia Sonja Taylor adalah bayi paling prematur dalam catatan sejarah yang berhasil bertahan hidup. Berikut laporan Jeremy Cooke.

Dengar ceritanya

Amillia Taylor was born on October 24th last year, just twenty-one weeks and six days after conception. She was delivered by Caesarean section, barely the length of a ballpoint pen and weighing just two-hundred-and-eighty-three grams.

A team of doctors at the Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami were at first doubtful that Amillia could live. Four months later they are celebrating a remarkable story of survival. Despite respiratory difficulties, digestive problems and a minor brain haemorrhage, Amillia is thriving. She now weighs more than one-point-eight kilos and is expected to be allowed to go home with her parents within the next few days.

It's believed that Amillia is the most premature baby on record to have survived and her case reopens the on-going debate about at what stage a foetus should be regarded as potentially viable. Clearly Amillia's story is hugely satisfying for her doctors and of course her parents but others in the medical community are stressing that hers is anything but a typical outcome. It is previously unheard of for a baby born at less than twenty-three weeks' gestation to live.

Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, New York

Dengar kata-katanya

conception
proses pembuahan janin

delivered
dilahirkan

Caesarean section
operasi Cesar untuk mengeluarkan bayi dari kandungan ibu

barely
hampir

haemorrhage
pendarahan

thriving
sangat kuat dan sehat

premature
prematur atau lahir sebelum 37 minggu

foetus
janin

potentially viable
memiliki peluang hidup

gestation
kehamilan

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