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Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag
Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but she fit into a plastic sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen — it's incredible to think that saved her life," says her mom.
Mom always told me not to play with plastic bags...
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Lexi Lacey?!
I suppose that's one more porn star we'll have in 18 year's time.
of what your Mom accidentally packed you for lunch.
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Everyone knows babies will keep better in tupperware
Her parents will tell her "You were almost a ham sandwich".
Or should I say Glad?
Anybody want a peanut?
Some kid, hearing his slashdot-reading parents discuss this, decides to "play doctor" and stuffs his little brother into a trash bag? The industry will have to react by poking air-holes in all plastic bags. Wait, they do that already! Every new zip-top sandwich bag I fill with liquid seems to come pre-perforated.
I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.
did you take the baby out of the bag first? Or did the baby make it slippery.
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The $.05 sandwich bag was probably billed at $50+
Only until they turn 18. Giggity.
True story that I witnessed myself: When a woman is about to deliver vaginally, there is a drape under her with plastic bags to collect the amniotic fluid and keep it from splashing all over the MD/midwife's legs and feet as they sit/stand there to help the baby out. In this case, the obstetrician dropped the baby as she came out (they are very slippery). By shear luck, the baby fell into the plastic bag instead of falling all the way to the floor. We all went "whew!" as the Daddy said "so THATS what that plastic bag is for!" Needless to say, we didn't correct him.
Until you have a baby. None of these kind of comments will be funny anymore. Seriously.
Let me guess, you were a bag baby....?
I don't think your information is reliable.
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Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
19th kid? No wonder it's premature, it probably just fell out! Jeez.
Perhaps other hospitals have better cafeteria technologies.
Some would say it takes a couple decades..
I couldn't get into medical school. :(
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