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I had a friend who's babygirl was born at 24 weeks and guess what? She died. My son was born at 36 weeks and STILL spent a week in the NICU. Babies at 24 weeks have MAYBE a 4O% chance of survival. Next to my son there was a baby girl that was born at 24 and the father asked her nurse if she had gained any weight. The nurse told him she had gained 3 ounces so now weighed one pound 2 ounces. She was a skeleton of a child. Her skin was red and thin, nearly translucent and her ankle was thinner than my pinky finger. She was literally skin and bone. The rest of her I really couldn't see because she was covered with tubes and monitors. She was on oygen, a feeding tube, an iv with antibiotics and fluids, monitors, a billiruben light and God knows what else. A fullterm newborn cries simply because it's cold. How do you think a tiny baby, not even a pound, feels being poked with needles all day long? Have tubes down their throat? They can't even cry because their lungs aren't developed. Hell, I'm an adult and an IV hurts ME, I cried my damn eyes out every time they had to put one in my son. He only had one in for 3 days but guess what? IV's fall out and his had to be done 4 times during that. His hands and arms were bruised from them, as were his tiny feet from having blood drawn. I had contraction 3-5 minutes apart for 8 weeks straight. I was in labor and delivery all the time afraid my son would come too early. I had an amnio done at 36 weeks to see if his lungs were developed because my dr. thought he had a knot in his cord which put him at a high risk for stillbirth. That amnio put me into labor and I would have taken all the pain in the world to keep him from what he went through that week. How dare you even think of trying to have that poor baby so early.

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