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Miracle Baby Boy from a Type 3 osteogenesis imperfecta, Mother

by Medindia Content Team on  February 15, 2006 at 5:10 PM Child Health News
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Miracle Baby Boy from a Type 3 osteogenesis imperfecta, Mother
Calif : A woman who is just three feet tall and 37 pound in weight prior to pregnancy, has delivered a healthy baby boy. This baby is her first child.

Eloysa Vasquez, confined to a wheel chair because of Type 3 osteogenesis imperfecta , a disorder that has rendered her bones soft and brittle . She has had two miscarriages as well.

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During the pregnancy, Vasquez gained 20 pounds . Her baby had a birth weight of three pound, seven ounce and was born on Jan. 24 at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

"We just took one day at a time. We had a lot of people praying for us. We just believed . . . and here we have our son," Vasquez, 38, told The Fresno Bee.

Timothy , the baby was delivered by caesarean section, eight weeks early as a precaution to the mother's weak health. Fortunately,Timothy has not inherited the mother's genetic disorder.

It is very rare phenomenon , about one in 25,000 to 50,000 births from a mother with Type 3 osteogenesis imperfecta, and therefore very much a miracle baby.


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I to have Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type 3 and on December 5, 2003 I gave birth to a healty baby boy. He was born at 34 weeks and 5 days and weighed 5 pounds 1 ounces. Throughout my pregnancy everything was perfectly normal and on schedule Here we are today my son is 4 yrs old and has no signs of Osteogenesis!

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