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Tiny Kimberly Mueller weighed just
over 10 ounces when she was born on 12.March.2007. Her chances of living
were rated at worse than 1,000-1 when she was born 15 weeks premature. She had to be born by Caesarean section because the blood supply via the umbilical cord was poor due to placenta failure and the heart started to get weaker.
But Kimberly, who was just 10.2 inches (26cm) long, spent months on a
life support system as doctors in Hanover, Germany fought to save her.
The tiny girl was kept in an incubator for warmth and drip-fed, while a respirator help her breathe.
She was also given a cocktail of drugs to boost an immune system that was barely formed.
"Babies as small as this usually
have no chance," said Dr Oliver Moeller, a heart specialist who treated
her. "We are incredibly lucky that she lived. Such a case I have never
experienced. We had a lot of luck ... a lot."
Kimberly's mother Petra Mueller,
38, from Hanover, who remained at her daughter's bedside in intensive
care at the University Clinic in Goettingen, was allowed only to stroke
her with her finger.
"It was the nicest thing when she would grip my finger in her tiny hands," she recalled.
"She was like a little bear gripping a tree trunk, just hanging on for life as if she was saying
'Don't leave me, mummy'."
At three months, she faced a major setback, when doctors feared she could be blind. But laser treatment corrected the problem.
After
six month's intensive care at the University Clinic in Goettingen,
Kimberly had grown to weigh 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg) and measure 17 inches
(43 cm), she was allowed to leave hospital and go to her Hanover home,
living with daddy Andreas Mueller and mommy Petra Meuller.
During the next few weeks she continued to be fed artificially and still need to have oxygen as her lungs keep developing.
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