Health
Waiting to clamp umbilical cord gives premature babies fighting chance – Sydney Morning Herald
Doctors should hold off clamping the umbilical cords for premature babies to help give them the best chance to thrive in their critical first days of life, a major…
Mrs Rizks daughters Arabelle, 7, and Odette, 4 were both six weeks premature. But her son George is her modern-day miracle.
Born at just 23 weeks and two days gestation, George barely weighed more than half a kilogram.
In the days before George was born, Mrs Rizk was on hospital bed rest with bulging membranes and a cervical stitch that had failed. When her waters broke, Mrs Rizk and Georges father Ray were told to prepare for the worst.
Danielle and Ray Rizk at home with their son George.Credit:Louise…
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