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Meet India's miracle baby
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At 495 gm birth weight, Sayalee is perhaps
the smallest baby that survived, in the country. Shaila Pawar, 36, a
resident of Kasare village in Parner taluk, who delivered after 13
unsuccessful pregnancies, finally took her four-month-old baby home.
“She weighs 2.4 kg now... Earlier, I had three abortions besides three
intra-uterine deaths,” says Pawar who suffered severe pregnancy-induced
hypertension during the earlier pregnancies. Born premature at 27 weeks of
pregnancy (against the normal duration of 40 weeks) on October 2, Sayalee
required artificial breathing support to regularise her breathing. “We stay
in a remote location and it is still a distance to travel to the Narayangaon
hospital,” says Laxman Pawar, the father is a teacher in the village.
Dr Sandeep and Dr. Smita Dole, medical practitioners in Narayangaon, managed
the pregnancy initially. Pawar was rushed to ONP Tulip Hospital when the
Doles identified a sudden elevation in blood pressure. Dr Avinash Phadnis,
director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at ONP Tulip Hospital, took her for
an emergency Caesarian section while neonatologist Dr Tushar Parikh
initiated a specialised baby care.
Hospital director Amita Phadnis says there has been no reported survival of
a baby weighing this small in India. The last reported survival is of a baby
weighing 540 gm. “Babies born this small have extremely poor function of all
body organs, say lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, intestine, skin and adrenals,
and all of them need support for survival of the child. Problems related to
any one system can kill the baby; it is the commonest outcome in such
cases.”
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