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AP LaserphotoBaby survives rare prenatal conditionMiracle Stacy Sickles gets admiration of parentsMONTROSE (AP) — Even the doctors who delivered her agree that Miracle Stacy Sickles was aptly named. She was born 12 weeks premature and had been carried in her mother’s abdominal cavity instead of her womb.Dr. Hamilton Lokey, who performed a Caesarian section on Miracle’s mother April 25, said there are only about 50 births similar to hers in medical literature.“It was a sequence of miracles that brought this baby where she is today,” Lokey said. She weighed 2 pounds, 6 ounces at birth, and now, weighing close to two pounds, she is “looking good, looking very good.” Miracle, like most babies, lost some weight after birth.Miracle was reported in “fantastic” condition Friday in the premature intensive care unit of St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. The baby is expected to stay in the hospital for about two months.Janet Sickles said her husband, uranium miner Jerry Sickles, came up with the baby’s name.Lokey said Mrs. Sickles’ embryonic sac and placenta developed outside the womb and drew blood from the ovary.The Sickles have two boys Donny, 8, and Jerry Jr., 5, both the result of normal pregnancies and deliveries. Sickles 13-year-old son from a previous marriage also lives with them in Redville,a hamlet 75 miles west of here on Colorado’s Western Slope.The delivery and birth were a race for life — first to save Mrs. Sickles and later Miracle.It began at the Sickles’ home early on April 25. Mrs. Sickles was taken to a local clinic in Norwood by ambulance after she hemorrhaged and was then transferred to Montrose Memorial Hospital. |About six hours after her birth in Montrose, Miracle was flown to Children’s Hospital in Denver, where she was kept for a week.She was transferred to St. Mary’s Thursday.“When Mrs. Sickles came in, she had no blood pressure and she was in a great deal of pain,”i said Douglas Boren, a physician’s assistant at; the Norwood clinic. “We essentially saved her life. The doctors in Montrose were responsible for keeping the baby alive.”In Montrose, Mrs Sickles was taken into surgery, where Lokey said he expected to perform a hysterectomy and also expected to lose the baby.Once the incision was made, the doctors found the baby safely enveloped in the embryonic sac within the abdominal cavity.Dr. Peter Honeyfield, a physician at Children’s Hospital, said the survival rate for babies born 12 weeks prematurely under more normal circumstances is about 60 percent.
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Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Fri, May 04, 1979
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