Graduation from the hospital! Medical staff arranged a holiday for a premature baby
Cullen Potter is not even a year old, and the kid has already celebrated his first graduation. The holiday was arranged by the doctors of the Children’s Hospital of the University of South Alabama in the USA.
So they decided to see off their little patient, who was in their hospital for the first five months of his life.
The boy’s mother, Molly, has had two miscarriages in the past. The third pregnancy threatened to end the same — the doctors found serious complications. To save the mother and baby, an urgent caesarean section was required.
However, the doctors of local hospitals gave only two percent out of a hundred that the baby would survive, and, probably, in this case, he would remain disabled.
At that time, Cullen was only 22 weeks old, and the age of viability of the fetus comes only from the 28th week. Of course, it happened that doctors nursed babies even earlier, but 22 weeks is too little.
Molly and her husband Robert called 16 hospitals before finding one that was willing to risk their reputation and fight for the baby’s life. Cullen was born at 22 weeks and two days. And the weight of the child was only 394 grams.
The baby spent 160 days in the hospital. During this time, he recovered to 2.3 kilograms. And when the doctors decided that nothing threatened the baby’s life, he was discharged home, having arranged a solemn ceremony.
And the video from the graduation, which was posted by the hospital staff, has already collected almost 20 million views.
“They believe in these little kids and give them the chance they deserve,” Molly says. “I pray that more doctors and hospitals see stories like my son’s. So that they reconsider their policies and give all children a chance at life.”
However, in Russia there are doctors who are against nursing premature babies.
“By saving premature babies, we interfere in divine affairs,” Vladimir Yuldashev, head of the department at the Bashkir State Medical University, said a few months ago.
“Thanks to our technologies, we are now carrying newborns weighing 500-600 grams. We applaud our colleagues. But look at the other side. Our children’s departments are filled with children with autism, children with a delay in neuropsychic development.
A huge amount of money goes to these children, who have difficulty adapting, and many of them become disabled. But these are the people we need to help.
Look at how it is in Western countries: they sometimes turn off the respiratory system, because they understand what families are doomed to with their pseudo-humanism.
Fortunately, there are still doctors who believe in miracles and in their little patients. Just look at these little graduates.
