Comments on: Miracle Baby

By: kayla

kayla — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:41:08 +0000

O god bless you and your family and thank you fro sharing your story like you our son was born premature but he was also born with esophageal atresia and downs syndrome as well. Again i would love to thank you

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By: kayla

kayla — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:28:33 +0000

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:28:21 +0000

I was born a premature baby (at seven months). My family have told me they thought I won’t survive. They also didn’t take pictures of me inside the incubator because I was really scary-looking and they were afraid I’d die from camera flashes. Haha silly.

Anyway, reading this story is very touching for me. Really, she is a fighter.

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By: Dena Straughn

Dena Straughn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:07:15 +0000

How beautiful. Thank you for posting this article about an amazing fighter. God bless.

By: annamanila

annamanila — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:47:09 +0000

Hugs to Kat. You’re okay now. Keep being okay. If you take a step backward .. all you have to do is to take two steps forward. Then you are still in step with yourself.

Hi Noems. Will read your moving piece.

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:35:26 +0000

Thanks Noemi and Jun! I’m in Manila, been here all my life. There were already a lot of those “clinics” around Metro Manila 20 years ago, and I can imagine probably more so nowadays. They’re not advertised, it’s just all word of mouth. I didn’t know where to find one, so I walked up to the most popular promiscuous girl in our batch and asked her point-blank (saying it was for a friend) and she gave me directions to a small dingy apartment along Buendia (scary). I can vaguely remember the experience — must have blocked it out of my memories already. Thanks for the suggestion on the Lenten retreat, Jun, I’ll look into it.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:17:16 +0000

The picture is amazing and the story so inspiring!

By: sexy mom

sexy mom — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:02:11 +0000

Amillia is indeed a miracle. Hers is a touching story of life.

As to abortion, there are different views to it. Some countries allow it, most religions don’t. I once dealt with a health project in Bangladesh, in which one of the components is MR (menstrual regulation, they call it), which technically is abortion. It was explained in one of the meetings that for Moslems, if a fetus is less than 120 days old, it is still considered to be without a soul, therefore, it is morally right for them to perform MR within 120 days of conception. I was taken aback with the explanation. And you are right, God alone is judge.

By: Noemi

Noemi — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:41:01 +0000

@Jun- I don’t think Kat is from here.

@Benj- But we never know the spirit of Amillia. She could outwit the odds.

By: benj

benj — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:48:55 +0000

Though I myself cringe at the thought of maserated tiny babies, I still don’t feel strongly about imposing my ethical stand on everyone. I think it’s a case-to-case basis when it comes to touchy topics like this.

A seven month old baby lacks the necessary lung surfactants to keep the alveoli from collapsing (atelectasis). At 22 weeks, her digestive system is still primitive and she’ll need massive amounts of steroids to get her going. Giving her too much steroids this early would also expose her too endocrine conditions that are just as dangerous.

At least she got to live, i guess.