and could it possible live?
2007-01-14 18:50:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
i don't know in america but in western australia at king edward memorial hospital for women they do everything in their power to save any child at any gestation period i am guessing that is what you mean by 18 weeks i had my son 9 weeks premature and they did everything possibly to save him and now he is happy and is 18 months
2007-01-14 20:45:56 · answer #1 · answered by megan p 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. A pregnancy that naturally aborts at 18 weeks is handled in an emergency room typically, not Labor and Delivery, and a death certificate is not required before 20 weeks gestation. Unfortunately our medical advances are not yet equipped for an infant that tiny. The odds of a 18 week gestation fetus surviving a delivery are very very low, and the lungs would not be developed enough to breathe alone for more then a minuet or two at the most.
2007-01-15 03:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by medicpaige 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A baby born at that gestation has no lungs as yet and can not breath with out the amniotic fluid. It quite literally lives like a fish inside the womb. They really could do nothing to save it.
My waters broke at 19 weeks and I obviously went into labour. Baby didn't survive very long as couldn't take a breath and died before delivery. If your baby happened to survive the birth, I'm sorry to say it would be only minutes before the heart stopped beating.
Anything under 24 weeks is really in gods hands as there is nothing medicine can do for them.
I truly am sorry.
2007-01-15 03:00:20 · answer #3 · answered by Venessa M 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Babies born before 24 weeks have no chance at survival. Even at 24 weeks they only have a 50/50 chance. And being a premie baby can lead to life long effects. I don't think they would try to save it. It'd be concider a miscarriage.
2007-01-15 03:04:30 · answer #4 · answered by ~*Isabel*~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be very weak but it could live with the right treatments I guess. And yes, if you had a baby at 18 weeks and it was alive, they would do everything possible to save it. I hope that your baby is ok and that it will make it as far as they will let you go.
2007-01-15 02:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by busemomme 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
no theres absolutly no why they will not try to save any baby younger then 24 weeks at 18 weeks the baby would never survive absolutly medically impossible they rarely survive at 24 weeks and then usually they have some sorts of problems goodluck
2007-01-15 02:56:16 · answer #6 · answered by nomorebabieshaha 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes they would do everything possible to save it...but there wouldn't be much they could do and it would be close to impossible. And if it did survive...it would not be a normal baby. It would have a world full of health problems and probably die soon anyway.
2007-01-15 02:59:18 · answer #7 · answered by ms_upsidedown 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO IT WOULD NOT LIVE BECAUSE IT NOT ALL THE FORM TO A HOLD BABY YET GO READ A BOOK ABOUT BABY BOOKS AND IT WILL TELL YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AT 18 WEEKS PREGNANT.
2007-01-15 03:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by WAZUP 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they would try everything they can to save the baby.
2007-01-15 02:57:13 · answer #9 · answered by 05&08 Mommy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it is procedure to try everything to save the baby unless maybe the parent says no.
2007-01-15 02:54:24 · answer #10 · answered by oooooh!!! 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋