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Texas Woman Gives Birth To 12-Ounce Baby
Neither Baby Needed Help Breathing
POSTED: 11:10 am EST February 20, 2004
HOUSTON -- A Texas couple has given birth to twin girls, including one who is one of the tiniest babies ever delivered.
Dodie and Vaughn Walpole's daughters were born on Feb. 11, about two months premature. Trinity weighed 2.8 pounds at birth, and Kylie was 12 ounces.
"She will fit in the palm of your hand -- my husband's wedding ring fits over her arm and her leg," Dodie Walpole said of Kylie. "She's a fighter. It's amazing."
Despite their size, Kylie and her sister are doing well.
Though most infants born at that weight and size typically need help breathing, neither baby required a respirator.
"Everything is developed," said Dr. Rose Hernandez, a neonatologist who is treating the girls at the Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston. "Her brain is fine, her lungs are fine, her kidney is fine, her heart is fine, everything is perfect."
After a decade of being unable to conceive, Dodie Walpole sought help from a fertility specialist. Now that they have two healthy girls, the couple is satisfied they probably won't have more.
"Two is enough," Dodie Walpole told the Houston Chronicle for a Friday story.
Texas Woman Gives Birth To 12-Ounce Baby
Neither Baby Needed Help Breathing
POSTED: 11:10 am EST February 20, 2004
HOUSTON -- A Texas couple has given birth to twin girls, including one who is one of the tiniest babies ever delivered.
Dodie and Vaughn Walpole's daughters were born on Feb. 11, about two months premature. Trinity weighed 2.8 pounds at birth, and Kylie was 12 ounces.
"She will fit in the palm of your hand -- my husband's wedding ring fits over her arm and her leg," Dodie Walpole said of Kylie. "She's a fighter. It's amazing."
Despite their size, Kylie and her sister are doing well.
Though most infants born at that weight and size typically need help breathing, neither baby required a respirator.
"Everything is developed," said Dr. Rose Hernandez, a neonatologist who is treating the girls at the Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston. "Her brain is fine, her lungs are fine, her kidney is fine, her heart is fine, everything is perfect."
After a decade of being unable to conceive, Dodie Walpole sought help from a fertility specialist. Now that they have two healthy girls, the couple is satisfied they probably won't have more.
"Two is enough," Dodie Walpole told the Houston Chronicle for a Friday story.
