Florida baby born months premature allowed to go home from hospital
AP
February 22, 2007
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The parents of tiny Amillia Taylor have taken her home from the hospital for the first time since the baby was delivered last fall.
Amillia spent less than 22 weeks in the womb. She was just nine-and-a-half inches at birth and weighed less than 10 ounces. She now weighs about four-and-a-half pounds and is just over 15-and-a-half inches long.
She'll still need oxygen at home. And a developmental specialist will be keeping track of her neurological progress.
Doctors had hoped to release Amillia from the hospital yesterday, but kept her an extra day to monitor a low white blood cell count that could have indicated she's vulnerable to infection.
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