Everything is serious: a hat, a gown and a discharge certificate.
Cullen Potter is not even a year old, and the baby has already celebrated his first graduation. The holiday was organized by the doctors of the Children’s Hospital of the University of South Alabama in the USA. So they decided to see their little patient, who was in their hospital for the first five months of his life.
The boy’s mom, 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 cesarean 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 begins only from the 28th week. Of course, it happened that doctors took care of babies at an earlier date, but 22 weeks is too little.
Molly and her husband Robert phoned 16 hospitals before finding one where they are willing to risk their reputation and fight for the baby’s life. Cullen was born at 22 weeks and two days. And the child weighed 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 graduation video, 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 the little ones deserve,” says Molly. – I pray that more doctors and hospitals will 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.
“Saving premature babies, we are intruding into divine affairs,” said Vladimir Yuldashev, head of the department at the Bashkir State Medical University, 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 mental retardation. A huge amount of money goes to these children, who are difficult to adapt, and many of them become disabled. But these are the people whom we had to help. Look how 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.