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Mary Alice Pollet is only three ♦ months old but she has already won a major battle in which the issue was life or death. When she was born on Oct. 8, Mary Alice was more than tw6 months premature and weighed but two pounds and eleven ounces.Within a few days the infant's weight dropped to one pound and eleven ounces nnd her physician reports that she is the smallest baby to live that has ever been entrusted to his care.Mary Alice is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pollet, Humboldt, who have three other children, all of whom were bom prematurely and are now strong, healthy, attractive youngsters.After Mary Alice was born at the home in Humboldt, she was brought to St. John's and placed in an incubator. Mrs. Pollet says the baby's digestive tract did not function properly and the infant lost weight rapidly. She was not expected to live.For several days, the infant was fed vitamins and liquids intervein-ally, Mrs. Pollet says. Then a rubber tube was used to introduce food directly into the stomach because the baby would not swallow. In time Mary Alice grew stronger and was fed with a medicine dropper. Several weeks ago she graduated to a nursing bottle.The baby was kept in an incubator until about a month ago. On Wednesday she was able to leave the hospital and is now, being cared for at her parents' home. Mary Alice now weighs four pounds and seven ounces and is nearly Id inches long. More than three months old, she is tiner than mo6t new bom babies.Mrs. Pollet, who is 33, reports that all of her four children ^were bom prematurely. Vlckey Jo, now 8, weighed three pounds and four ounces at birth; Patricia Ann, 4, tipped the scales at three pounds and six ounces; Terry Dean, 3,MARY ALICE POLLET IS ACCUSTOMED TO THE SPOTLIGHT and more or less bored with the attention she has received in recent months. Now over three months old and weighing 4 pounds and 11 ounces, she feels snug in a doll's high chair. Her brothers and sisters, left 16 right, are Patricia Ann, 4; Vicky Jo, 5.and Terry Dean. 3.—(Register Photo.)weighed three pounds and four ounces.With the exception of Vlckey Jo who was bom at* El Dorado, all of Mrs. Pollet's children spent thefirst weeks of their lives in the incubator at St. John’s hospital. The mother credits her doctor and the skilled and careful nursing provided by the hospital staff for the finehealth enjoyed by her children to* day.The father, age 37, is employed ai theJK-Efaj^Maintenance Company
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Iola Register
Iola, Kansas, US
Fri, Jan 19, 1951
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