Sabi: The world’s smallest baby can use eggshells as a cradle, weighing 243.8 grams at birth -

Hou Shanyuan, an ancient Chinese poet, said in "Qinyuan Chun": "A mother is pregnant for ten months, breastfeeds for three years, and then gets wet when she is dry. How hard it is.

When you grow up, you have five eyes in your heart, and your foreign surname instigates each family. Whoever realizes it is like an owl..." This tells the hard work and difficulty of mother's childbirth and care. Therefore, at that time, the concept of "ten-month pregnancy" came into being.

With the continuous advancement of modern medicine, the concept of "ten-month pregnancy" actually has a more accurate time and stage. Pregnancy usually lasts 280 days, and the embryo survives in the mother's body for about 40 weeks, which is calculated based on 7 days as one gestation week.

During this period, the mother's body will undergo various changes to maintain the life of the child. Whether the embryo can develop and shape depends largely on whether the mother can provide them with adequate nutrition and environmental conditions.

People can't help but wonder, the mother is so important to the survival and development of the child, but if the child leaves the mother's body prematurely, can the child survive? Even if they survive, will the child's development be affected?

There is such a premature baby in the United States. She was only 243.8 grams when she was born. She can sleep in a large eggshell as a cradle. How is she doing now that she is four years old?

In December 2018, a pregnant mother was sent to a gynecological hospital in San Diego, California, USA. The mother was only about five months pregnant, but already had unbearable pain in her abdomen. She fainted at home due to extreme anemia and was rushed to the hospital by her family.

She woke up after receiving treatment in the hospital, but she still felt uncomfortable in her abdomen. Afterwards, doctors at the hospital conducted a series of detailed examinations on her and found that she had anemia as early as the early stages of pregnancy.

As the months of pregnancy get older, her body has not made corresponding adjustments. Until now in the second trimester, it has evolved from anemia to gestational hypertension and other diseases, which is quite dangerous. body warning. In other words, there are various signs that she now has serious pregnancy complications!

The pregnant mother and her family were very shocked. They did not know that a faint caused by anemia could cause such serious harm to the child in her belly. She and her family were shocked. Her family members seemed to blame themselves.

Just when she wanted to ask the doctor how she could adjust and improve her physical condition to welcome the child, she and her family received a more severe blow.

The doctor continued to add that this is not just anemia, the accompanying high blood pressure is a manifestation of serious pregnancy complications, and she now needs hospitalization. If the blood pressure still shows no sign of falling, the child An early birth may occur at any time.

This was like a bolt from the blue, and the pregnant woman burst into tears instantly. She and her husband couldn't understand why such a small accident could cause such serious pregnancy complications and lead to the birth of the child so early!

This is the first child in their family. They can't imagine whether such a young child can be born, and whether he can survive after birth. They are now desperate for the treatment to be effective and for their children to get through this risk as safely as possible.

Feeling anxious and uneasy, the pregnant woman was admitted to the hospital for treatment that night. However, antihypertensive treatment had little effect and her blood pressure remained high.

On the 23rd week and 3rd day of pregnancy, her blood pressure was very, very high. Doctors were monitoring the vital signs of the pregnant woman and the child in her belly at the same time. Due to the influence of pregnancy complications such as high blood pressure, The situation for both of them is not optimistic.

If the child continues to stay in the mother's body, the mother's blood pressure will become higher and higher, and the child in the belly will gradually become hypoxic, which may be life-threatening at any time!

The doctor’s advice is to give birth to the child now. This is the best choice for both the mother and the child.

Likewise, she and her husband were told that the birth of a child was not a sure thing and that such an early birth was unprecedented.

The hospital will devote 100% of its energy and optimal resources to taking care of this child who came into the world early, but no one knows what this child is about to face.

"This is the scariest day of my life. My blood pressure is very, very high. I keep telling the doctors that my baby will not survive. She is only 23 weeks old. You must Save her,” the pregnant woman said in the video shot at the hospital.

Eventually the mother was taken to the delivery room, where she gave birth to a girl after a quick caesarean section. Both mother and daughter were transferred to the intensive care unit for rescue and treatment. What will greet them?

After the rescue and careful care, the mother's health was not serious. Her husband and family are now a little relieved, but what they are most worried about now is whether their child can survive.

She named her child Sebi. When she learned that Sebi weighed only 243.8 grams at birth, she still couldn't help crying. Sebby's mother felt guilty because she had pre-eclampsia and Sebby had not gained any weight after five months in her body. She believed Sebby should have been stronger.

In the intensive care unit of Sharp Mary Burch Women's and Neonatal Hospital in San Diego, little Sebby weighs less than a large apple, her small body placed in a larger eggshell. Not an exaggeration. When she was born by caesarean section, Sebi didn't even cry. She seemed to have no ability to sense that she had entered the world.

"Her breathing was very weak when she was born. With her thin arms and thin legs, the hospital nurse could hold her with one hand. Generally, newborns will cry when they are born. , but Saibi is so small, we don’t even dare to let her cry.”

Because her breathing was very shallow and slow when she was born, her organs were not fully developed, her heartbeat was very weak, and her body was weak. His skin was also not good, and the doctors at the hospital did not dare to judge Saibi's life status, and even issued a final "death notice" to Saibi's parents.

After the delivery, doctors told Sebby's father that he would only be able to spend perhaps an hour with Sebby before her daughter died. After hearing this, his husband burst into tears and almost collapsed emotionally. He did not dare to tell the news to his wife who was still in the hospital bed. After all, she had just survived the danger of her life, so he chose to bear it silently.

When Sabby was born, Dr. Paul, a physician at Sharp Mary Birch Women's and Newborn Hospital, worked to stabilize the "mini" baby before she was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit.

After maintaining Saibi's breathing stable through continuous oxygen inhalation, her heartbeat returned to normal levels, and the medical team decided to intubate her for respiratory treatment.

"We first tried to do a series of measurements and diagnoses for little Saibi, but she was too small. When we measured her weight, the instrument did not show it. Later we found out that the baby's weight was lower than The instrument does not record 300 grams, so we can only use a smaller weighing instrument. When measuring breathing, we rely on our doctors to make manual judgments. ”

It’s really unimaginable, little one. Little Saibi actually has such strong vitality in her body, and her "death countdown" also extended from the first hour to two hours, and slowly turned into a day, a week, and kept extending...

< p> In the hospital, not only Saibi’s parents and family felt the tenacity of Saibi’s life, but the multidisciplinary expert doctors in the hospital were also happy to see the continuation of Saibi’s life, including neonatologists, nurses, respiratory, occupational and Physiotherapists, social workers, pharmacists and nutritionists.

They continued to take care of Sebby in the neonatal intensive care unit where she was located, and at the same time provided physical and spiritual help and support to Sebby's mother and her family.

As Sebi grew stronger and Sebi’s care team became closer to her parents, Sebi’s life was successfully extended to five months, and Sebi miraculously survived. A dangerous period.

Sharp Mary Birch Hospital is also very proud to be able to take care of Sabby and help Sabby's parents through the most difficult period.

It is worth mentioning that Sharp Mary Burch Hospital has the largest level 3 neonatal intensive care unit in the San Diego area and is recognized as one of the best hospitals in the world.

The hospital is famous for caring for micro-preemies, babies born before 28 weeks of pregnancy.

In May 2019, Sebi and her mother escaped from the intensive care unit and returned home.

After being discharged from the hospital, Sebby was ranked as the smallest baby ever born in the world on the Tiniest Babies Registry maintained by the University of Iowa. Dr. Edward Bell, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa, said Sebby's medically confirmed birth weight was the lowest on the registry.

The hospital said the girl weighed 7 grams less than the previous smallest baby born in Germany in 2015. Sebby did, she did survive, and her weight slowly increased in the NICU.

Next to her crib in the neonatal intensive care unit, a pink sign reads "Small but Mighty." Living up to expectations, Saibi's little weight has really slowly increased in the past few months, and she has grown into a normal newborn baby.

"You could barely see her in bed during that time. She was so small, but also so powerful." Nurse Emma West said in a video recorded at the hospital.

In the hospital video, on the day she was discharged from the hospital, Sebby was wearing a mint bow dress with white dots on it. She was wearing a hat and her little eyes looked out from below, looking at this novelty. world.

When she was discharged from the hospital, the nurses prepared a small graduation cap for her. They looked forward to Sebi's new life.

After being discharged from the hospital, Sebi's parents and her family were very happy, but the doctors also gave them some warnings. Even if Saibi miraculously survives the most difficult five months as a micro-premature baby, there may still be some physical problems during the growth process, and they will have a long way to go.

Courtney Acker, a registered nurse who specializes in caring for micro-preemies in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, said: "We are really happy to see Sebby survive. It's really... It’s a miracle, it’s a rare case of the right time and place, but we can’t rule out the challenges Sebby may face as a micro-preemie as she gets older.”

Indeed, Survival does not mean micro-preemies are safe. Problems they face include vision problems, fine motor skills and learning disabilities. The older they get, the more complications they face.

In the past few years, Saibi has been accompanied by his parents to the hospital regularly for health diagnosis, and all physical signs have remained at a good level. To protect the privacy of Sebi and his family, Sebi’s specific information has not been published online.

Sharp Mary Birch Hospital, with the consent of Sebby and her parents, produced a video of her birth. This video received an enthusiastic response on the Internet, and everyone was moved and applauded by Sebi, a tenacious little girl.

In 2021, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital shared Sebby’s current situation while protecting her privacy. Last year, three-year-old Sebi was already a "healthy" little girl, with all physical indicators performing well, even better than many children born normally. This means that Sebi can go to kindergarten like a normal child.

But thankfully, in 2022, Sebi experienced few of the medical challenges typically associated with so-called micro-preemies (those born before 28 weeks), which include brain bleeds, lung and heart problems . So far, Sebby has beaten the odds and she's four years old.

With the advancement of science and technology, we are often grateful for the development of external materials and technology, but in the face of death, the greatest thing is actually our own tenacious vitality.

As the world's smallest micro-preemie, Sebi faced huge dangers when she was born, but what helped her survive was her own tenacity and tenacity.

It is undeniable that modern technology and external assistance can indeed help mankind go through a relatively difficult road, but it is up to us to decide whether we can survive and how we should survive. While we are developing technology, we must not forget to respect life. We look forward to the healthy and happy growth of Saibi in the future!