The mother suffers from Lupus and during her pregnancy encountered life threatening complications. Faced with the possibility of death for both the mother and baby, the family chose to deliver the baby at 26 weeks. She was the smallest baby ever delivered at Magee-Woman's Hospital of UPMC in Pittsburgh.
What's so remarkable about this story? Many things. Probably the most important is that the family made a decision to have the baby rather than abort the baby. Babies at this gestational age, if aborted, are aborted by the partial-birth method. Secondly, the mother urged parents facing similar difficulties, never to give up. "I would tell them, don't give up on their child, if they're born small, or have a disease or anything. There's a God in this world, and if it's meant to be, it's meant to be."
Taylor is 83 days old and weighs 3 lbs. Life is beautiful if you give it a chance. To quote Dr. Zeuss, "A person's a person, no matter how small."
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