‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

看,他们的皮肤变红了!:我们是否有权利努力拯救世界上体重最轻的婴儿?

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社会与文化

2025-01-20

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Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffering? By Sophie McBain. Read by Chloe Pirrie. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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  • Look, they're getting skin.

  • Are we right to strive to save the world's tiniest babies?

  • By Sophie McBean Alice Smith was five months pregnant when she noticed some discharge one evening and something felt off.

  • She did an online yoga class and went to bed early, but the next day she felt worried enough to phone the maternity triage line.

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  • Smith emailed her boss to explain she'd be offline for a few hours and then headed to hospital.

  • Until then, her pregnancy had progressed smoothly.

  • She was 37 years old, healthy and expecting twins, a boy and a girl.

  • A routine ultrasound a few weeks earlier had suggested all was well.