Puppies Save Lost 3-Year-Old Boy From Freezing In Virginia woods

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A toddler lost in the Virginia woods was back home safe Sunday thanks to two puppies who kept him warm through a harrowing night of freezing temperatures.

Jaylynn Thorpe, 3, wandered away from his baby-sitter at 4 p.m. Friday and was missing for 21 hours as close to 300 people from North Carolina and Virginia joined in the search to find for him in the thick woods of Halifax County, fearing the worst.

Officials said the lost little boy and the two family puppies wandered up to a mile in the dark, even across a highway, but it wasn’t until Saturday afternoon that members of the search team found him sitting by a tree, the two puppies nestled against him.

When they found him, the little boy didn’t say anything, but instead “just opened his arms up like, ‘I’m ready to go.'”

Billie Jo Roach, a member of the search party that found the boy, said the puppies refused to leave his side.

As the child was placed in an ambulance to be taken to a local hospital for examination, “The puppies were watching where he went.

“Where he went, they went,” she said.

As word went out that the child was alive and well, family members cheered and cried for joy.

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UPDATE: Baby Waiting For Heart Surprises Doctors By Surviving Off Life Support

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Two weeks ago, we introduced you to Theo Davis, the little boy born with half a heart. At that time he had already undone five operations, but was still given just two weeks to live without a new organ.

After surprising doctors by breathing on his own earlier this month, the little fighter survived an operation last week that improved his heart functions.

This has left doctors to believe that he can come off the transplant list and he may not now need a new heart until teenage years.

Even though they have a long way to go, his parents are thrilled that they maybe getting him home in a few weeks.

I am so excited for this family! The best part about this story is that another baby can hopefully be moved up the donor list.

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Amazing Baby Stuns Doctors By Growing Outside The Womb

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Durga Thangarajahhas been hailed as a “miracle” after she survived a full-term pregnancy outside the womb.

The little fighter was delivered by caesarian at Darwin Private Hospital on Thursday, after spending almost nine months growing inside her mother’s right ovary — stretching the organ’s tissue as thin as paper.

Obstetrician Dr Andrew Miller said the chances of a foetus lodging in an ovary were one in 40,000 but that the chances of such a pregnancy producing a healthy baby were almost nil.”It’s an extraordinarily unusual outcome and I am not aware of anyone who has seen a (full) term ovarian pregnancy as we have here,” he told AFP.

“I deliver anything up to 520 (babies) a year here privately and I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

An ectopic pregnancy, in which the foetus develops outside the womb, usually involves the fertilised egg lodging in the fallopian tubes which link the ovaries to the uterus.

The condition places the woman’s life at risk because of the likelihood the foetus will cause a rupture resulting in pain and blood loss, and is usually resolved by a miscarriage or termination.

The mother, 34-year-old Meera Thangarajah, condition was not known because she had not had early pre-natal scans and had had a trouble-free pregnancy.

The doctor believed that he was going to deliver the baby normally from the womb and then remove a large ‘fibroid’ which scans had detected.

It was only after he made the incision that he released that what doctors had misdiagnosed as a fibroid, an overgrowth of the muscle of the womb, was in fact the mother’s womb and the baby was in the ovary. “And you can’t believe that the baby, just by normal movement and that, wouldn’t have caused the sac (inside the ovary) to rupture. It was so paper thin you could see the baby’s hair and so on,” Miller said.

When my son was in the NICU, the nurses told me about a baby born at that hospital under the same conditions. That baby was a legend at our hospital as I am sure this baby will be at this hospital.Congratulations to this family on a safe delivery.Related Articles:

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Boston Terrier Saves Baby From Drowning

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Tyson the Boston Terrier is probably getting the royal treatment in Florida after he helped rescue a baby from drowning in a family’s pool.

Dog owners Whitney and Brook Michael Lovatt were inside their home with Whitney’s sister, Amy Kelaidis, when they heard Tyson barking outside near the pool.After following Tyson’s persistent barking, Brook reportedly found Kelaidis’ 10-month-old son, Lios, floating face down in the pool with blue lips and closed eyes.

Lovatt, a licensed boat captain, performed rescue breathing on the child. He was breathing independently when paramedics arrived and was released from Martin Memorial North Medical Center Tuesday.

It always amazes me how persistent dogs are. When we first got our new puppy, she would sleep under our son’s crib and growl at us if we came in while he was sleeping.

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Amazing Baby Defies Odds After Being Born With Only Half A Heart

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When Zephan Bjorkman arrived at 29 weeks gestation, doctors didn’t believe that he would survive.

At birth he was found to have a “double inlet left ventricle with malposed great vessels,” which means that his right ventricle, one of the heart’s two pumping chambers, never developed, leaving the left ventricle to work for both.

In a normal heart, the left ventricle pumps oxygen-rich blood through the body, and the right ventricle pumps the oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs. Zephan’s left ventricle is mixing the oxygen-rich and oxygen-depleted blood and pumping it to the body and the lungs.

One in 10,000 babies is born with some variation of this heart defect, one of the rarest.

“This wouldn’t make the top 10 or even the top 20 of congenital heart defects,” said Dr. Richard Ohye, a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Despite all of his issues, Zephan has received many miracles. The first was when he survived his birth.

The second was when his is pulmonary artery developed a partial blockage, a condition called pulmonary stenosis, reducing blood flow to the lungs. For a normal heart, would be a serious problem, but for Zephan, it was a blessing. It gave him a reprieve, allowing him more time to grow before undergoing heart surgery.

On June 17, he is scheduled to undergo the first operation. A second will follow when he is 18 to 24 months old.

If all goes according to plan, the surgeons at Mott will reroute the blood flow by rearranging the blood vessels. The left ventricle will pump oxygen-rich blood to his body, and the oxygen-depleted blood will bypass the heart, flowing directly to the lungs.

At Mott, the survival rate for the first surgery is about 90 percent, Ohye said, and 98 percent for the second. His doctors expect Zephan will be able to lead a quality life, although it will be defined by his defective heart. As for his long-term prognosis, the doctors just do not know, because this type of surgery is relatively new.

I can’t imagine how these parents feel, but I wish them the very best.This is the kind of story that should make parents of a healthy baby feel blessed.

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UK Doctors Outfit 5 Day Old Baby With Pacemaker

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Liam King, is recovering and at home after being fitted with a pacemaker. The 5 day old baby is one of the youngest patients to be given a pacemaker.

Doctors told his parents that without the operation to correct his heartbeat, Liam might live for just 15 minutes.

Father Andy said his return from hospital was “like Christmas Day all over again”.

Liam now faces operations at ages five, 12 and 21 to replace the device as he grows up.

He may also need a heart transplant.

Liam, who was born at 34 weeks gestation, was diagnosed with a heart block, a condition which affects electrical signals sent to the heart to control the heartbeats.

Because Liam is so small, the pacemaker is located near his stomach. It controls the lower chambers of his heart, which were not working properly.

“We saw a light at the end of the tunnel then, the day he had his pacemaker. And two weeks later when he came home, it was like Christmas Day all over again,” Mr King said.

In order to keep Liam safe, his parents have been asked to not use a mobile phone near him in case it interferes with the device. MP3 players, wi-fi internet and even loudspeakers also pose a threat as well.

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Britains Youngest Surviving Preemie Thriving at 10 Years Old

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Will Goddard, who is thought be Britain’s most premature surviving baby, arrived on February 14th 1998 at just 22 weeks 3 days gestation.

Doctors held out so little hope for him that he was given no medical treatment for the first 36 hours.

Instead his mother, Liz, was allowed to hold him in her arms as they waited for the end.

“When I went in to hospital the consultant did an internal examination and said the baby was dead. But they kept me in because at that stage – 22 weeks – you have to deliver the baby dead or alive,” she recounts.

On arrival, Will, who weighed just 1 lb 4oz, was placed in a basket and taken away.

“The midwife covered him over and was more concerned with me and delivering the placenta. Then he made a noise and she asked if I wanted to hold him, which I did. I held him for seven hours in the delivery suite with no intervention as we waited for him to die,” said Miss Goddard, a secondary school teacher.

For the first few hours Will lay motionless but after 36 hours his condition began to deteriorate.

Amazed that he had survived so long, an emergency meeting of senior hospital figures decided to begin treating him.

During the four months he remained in hospital, Will overcame kidney failure, and was on oxygen for his first six months.

Until he began school at five, Will was small for his age and reached most of his milestones, such as speaking, later than his peers.

Now “he’s at the top end of his class for reading and is learning to speak Mandarin. He likes doing more academic things like languages, learning about the world and travel.”

Sometimes I get criticized for posting stories that are not the norm.Not every baby born at 22 weeks will survive and grow up to be an unbelievable kid. In fact, only a small percentage will have the chance of surviving and of those that survive, an even smaller number will grow up to have no lasting effects of their early arrival.

With that being said, it is possible and any parent who is in this situation should know this.Regardless of what other babies have done. Every baby is their own person with their own will to live. If this story give just one parent, who has a baby in the hospital, hope than covering this story was the right thing to do. Sometimes parents who hope, give their kids hope too!

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28-Inch Tall Kentucky Woman Delivers 18-Inch Daughter

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Stacey Herald, who is 28½ inches, head to heel, gave birth five weeks ago to an 18-inch daughter who is not much smaller than her mother,WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reports.

The new mom, who was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta also has a 16-month-old daughter, Katira, also suffers from the genetic disorder that causes bones to break easily. The new baby, Makaia, is expected to grow to average height.

“My whole life I’ve been told that I wasn’t able to have children, (and) I would not live through the pregnancy — that with the size of my torso, the baby would grow up underneath my lungs and smother out my lungs and my heart, and we would both die,” Herald said.

“Something inside me just didn’t believe that,” she said.

After Stacy became pregnant with Katira, doctors warned that she and the baby would in trouble and they advised her to schedule an abortion.

“We said, ‘No, we’re not doing that,’ and my doctor — I love her to death, she’s so sweet — she said, ‘OK,’ she said, ‘We’ll do it. We’ll provide the best medical care we provide. You provide the faith and we’ll see what happens,'” Herald said.

While pregnant with Makaia Stacy said her belly “swelled to comically large proportions.”

“If I laid down, I looked like a snail,” she said, laughing. “That’s how big my belly was. I looked like an Idaho potato with arms and legs.”

“You couldn’t see my feet,” Herald said. “You know, my legs are there you know, but my belly came out so long, that all you could see was a belly with toes.”

This mom could be called either courageous or crazy. It is definitely a gamble to have a second baby knowing that the first was born with the same genetic condition that you have.

I am glad that this baby arrived healthy and happy!

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32 Weeker Survives Falling Out Of A Moving Train

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This is one of the craziest stories I have read in a long time!!

Bhuri Kalbi was traveling by train with her relatives to a medical check-up. She felt very weak on the toilet seat and passed out. While unconscious, her tiny baby, which weighed just 3 lbs, slipped from the womb into the toilet tube and crash-landed on rocks between two steel tracks.

The next thing she remembers is people knocking on the toilet door.

When she managed to get up to open the latched door, she realised an emptiness in her stomach. “I realised my stomach was flat. My child was gone,” said Bhuri whose husband works in a packaging unit in Ahmedabad.

Bhuri’s brother-in-law Arjun said when she opened the door she was semiconscious. He realised with complete shock what had happened. “We immediately pulled the chain at Kalol, two stations away from where the child had slipped off and alerted the train guard,” he said.

Luckily the baby feel just feet from a station, where the railwaymen bundled the baby and called the hospital.

The baby was lying dangerously close to the left track with the umbilical cord hanging by the side,” Station master KK Rai said.

While the newborn was being examined, a call came, saying the parents had been found.

The parents have since been re-united with baby, who has been left without a scratch after the ‘providential escape’.

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Amazing Baby Born With Heart Outside Body

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The Daily Mail has an amazing story of a baby that survived delivery despite its heart being outside the chest cavity.

The infant’s heart was born with its most vital organ exposed and is being treated in the intensive care unit of Shenzhen Children’s Hospital in China’s Guangdong Province.

The baby’s parents showed enormous faith by choosing not to abort it, even though they knew about the condition before their was baby was born.

The unusual and dangerous development was caused by a rare disease – less than five babies in one million are struck by it. The illness affects the child’s chest and abdomen.

Less than 200 cases have been recorded and it is the first modern case in China.

Most babies die from the disease before birth.

As soon as the baby is strong enough, doctors are expected to operate to repair the malformation.

There have been 2 babies in the last 4 years that have survived this surgery. I hope that the same good luck falls on this baby.

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