A 37-year-old woman sought medical treatment for severe abdominal pain and bloating, only to discover that she was 23 weeks pregnant with a fetus growing in her bowel, a rare case of abdominal ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancies, which occur outside the uterus, are dangerous for the mother and rarely result in a surviving fetus. The baby was delivered at 29 weeks and placed in the neonatal intensive care unit, with both mother and baby being discharged after three months. This is not the first case of an embryo growing in an unusual location, as a pediatrician previously reported a fetus growing in a woman's liver.
Nicole Dib refused to give up on her son Jibreel, who was born four months premature and weighed just 1.8 pounds. Despite being given the option five times to turn off his life support, Jibreel miraculously survived and is now a healthy four-year-old with cerebral palsy. Nicole hopes to inspire other parents with critically ill babies to never lose hope and to seek support from networks and resources available.
A Long Island nurse has been arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child after being caught on video allegedly picking up a two-day old baby and slamming him face-down into his bassinet. The incident occurred while the nurse was in charge of the newborn's care at the neonatal intensive care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital. The nurse was terminated within hours of the incident, and her arraignment has been set for May 2.
A Long Island nurse has been arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child after she was caught on video allegedly picking up a two-day old baby and slamming him face-down into his bassinet. The incident occurred while the nurse was in charge of the newborn's care at the neonatal intensive care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip. The nurse was terminated within hours of the incident, and her arraignment has been set for May 2.
