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During pregnancy the expectant mother observed high blood pressure, which is extremely dangerous for both the woman and the fetus. She was hospitalized in the hospital of San Fernando, California, de doctors to diagnose problems with the placenta - organ through which the child receives water and nutrients veschestva.Melinda Star Guido, born in August this year in the USC Medical Center in Los Angeles - the tiny baby of all survivors. At the moment of birth, which occurred at 24 weeks gestation by caesarean section, Melinda entirely fits in the palm of an obstetrician, and its weight does not exceed 270 grams.
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Doctors said the woman and her husband, Jovan Guido that the baby will be born prematurely. The chances that he will survive a little bit, in this case, the girl threatened blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy and severe developmental delay. However, the parents took this risk and said they would raise such a problem child.

2. Who Melinda 14 weeks, she clings to the little finger of his mother lying in the incubator



3. Currently, the girl is in the hospital incubator, where she visits her mother every day - a 22 year old Heidi Ibarra. Photo: Heidi Ibarra watches as ophthalmologists visiting her daughter.



4. Heidi Ibarra holding his tiny daughter, who is the second child in the United States, the survivors with birth weight

The previous "record holder" among premature infants, which had a birth weight of 260 grams, is already 7 years old. Another, vesivshaya 280 grams, now studying psychology at the prestigious college. Most premature, but the surviving babies - girls. This is due to the fact that female fetuses are developing faster than the male, and has at the time of premature birth is better formed organs.



5. Hand Melinda compared with maternal hand





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