weeks: SURVIVED!
This is Kenya King, born at 19 weeks, or just a little more then 4 1/2 months after her
life began. Pictured here with her mother, Lisa King, Kenya weighed only 18 ounces when
she was born in Florida on June 16, 1985. When this photo was taken, Kenya weighed 5
pounds.
Babies can routinely be saved at 21 to 22 weeks after fertilization, and sometimes,
like Kenya, they can be saved even younger. *
weeks: "VIABLE"
TOMORROW?
This is an unborn baby only 18 weeks old, just before viability. Viability is the time
when the baby is able to survive outside the mother. Not long ago viability was at 30
weeks; then it was 25 weeks.
Now viability is even earlier. What will it be tomorrow? Science is constantly making
progress in this area.
* Cunningham,
MacDonald and Grant, Williams Obstetrics, 18th edition, p.87