{"id":5261,"date":"2011-12-18T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T01:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathyschiffer.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:00:20","slug":"tiniest-miracle-goes-home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2011\/12\/tiniest-miracle-goes-home-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiniest Miracle Goes Home for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"Four-month-old Melinda Star Guido is going home!<\/strong><\/p>\n

When she was born in late August,<\/strong> baby Melinda weighed only 9\u00bd ounces and was, according to the Associated Press, the third-smallest baby in the world.\u00a0 Most infants her size don\u2019t survive; in fact, doctors didn\u2019t really expect her to live.\u00a0 But Melinda received excellent care in the NICU at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where she received nutrition through a feeding tube and was hooked up to a breathing machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Melinda\u2019s mother, 22-year-old Haydee Ibarra, suffered from high blood pressure during her pregnancy.\u00a0 Because of a problem with the placenta, the developing Melinda did not receive proper nutrition, oxygen and blood.\u00a0 Doctors feared for both mother and child, and so delivered the infant by cesarian section at 24 weeks gestation.<\/p>\n

Baby Melinda has faced some crises during her short life.\u00a0 She was treated for an eye disorder, and recently underwent surgery to close an artery which usually seals after birth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But God seems to have a plan for Melinda\u2019s future.\u00a0<\/strong> Doctors are planning to release her before New Year\u2019s Eve, and Melinda\u2014now over four pounds\u2014will go home to her parents\u2019 waiting arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, not all of baby Melinda\u2019s peers fare as well:\u00a0<\/strong> According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, each year 1,032 babies like Melinda<\/strong>, who reach 24 weeks or more in the womb, are aborted.\u00a0 Are they, as the abortion industry would have us believe, just a \u201cbundle of cells\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four-month-old Melinda Star Guido is going home! When she was born in late August, baby Melinda weighed only 9\u00bd ounces and was, according to the Associated Press, the third-smallest baby in the world.\u00a0 Most infants her size don\u2019t survive; in fact, doctors didn\u2019t really expect her to live.\u00a0 But Melinda received excellent care in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-babies"],"yoast_head":"\nTiniest Miracle Goes Home for the Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of world's smallest babies--just 9 1\/2 ounces at birth--is going home. 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