Medical advances give ‘micro-preemie’ babies a good shot at survival, but many hospitals have yet to catch up

When Fatima Goines went into labor at 22 weeks, doctors at Methodist Hospital in Minneapolis told her no hospital could save her baby, that they would deliver her daughter, and that she would be able to hold her infant until she died.

The determined mother, however, left Methodist Hospital and instead checked into a birthing center just seven miles away – one associated with Children’s Minnesota Hospital. After Goines gave birth to her daughter there, Me’Lonii was intubated and placed in an incubator. -- More...