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Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag

Posted by samzenpus on from the keeping-baby-fresh dept.

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.

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  1. Yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yay, I am an first!

  2. Lexi Lacey? by Thanshin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lexi Lacey?Seriously?

    Aren't there laws to protect children from that?

  3. Re:Pffft, it's just a mass of cells ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mostly because you should've been aborted in the third trimester, or fourth.

  4. Re:Is the Story Real? by MWoody · · Score: 0, Troll

    List of Infant Mortality Rates

    United States: 6.3 deaths per 100,000 live births

    United Kingdom: 4.8 deaths per 100,000 live births

    Oh I'm sorry, do the facts get in the way of your opinion? How rude of me.