This is so wonderful! Great story! The doctors have done an extraordinary job! I ask God to bless them and also to bless this fighter girl!
Aww, God loves her! I just love happy endings like this!
I would hope that that hospital has come up with other means should that situation arise again in the future. But I’m glad their ingenuity saved the baby’s life!
Neonatal care has come a long way in the last few decades, but sometimes doctors have to get creative to save a little life. Pixie Grant spent the first few moments of her life not in her mother’s arms, but in an extremely bizarre place: a plastic sandwich bag.
Yup, a sandwich bag! Pixie was born at just 28 weeks, once doctors determined she wasn’t gaining weight in utero. The medical staff tried coming up with a plan to delay her birth, but apparently, little Pixie was determined to have an October birthday.
Pixie’s mom, Sharon, had no choice but to undergo an emergency c-section. The moment Pixie was born, the doctors realized she needed to get warm immediately or she would die. She only weighed 1.1 lbs! They searched around and couldn’t find any normal medical equipment to use because it was too big.
So, one quick-thinking doctor put her in a hat and wrapped her in a plastic sandwich bag to keep her warm as they rushed the infant to intensive care. They were the two smallest things around that would provide insulation! “It was so random that they had her in the sandwich bag – it must have just been what the operating theater had at the time,” Sharon remarked afterward.