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Into the vacuum left by the lack of public policy stories entered--babies. CNN's Sanjay Gupta filed an Eye on Medicine feature for CBS about neonatal innovations to keep premature babies alive. Those at risk infants need to things: to put on weight quickly and to avoid illness, especially the life-threatening gastrointestinal infection called NEC. That is Necrotizing Entero-Colitis. A single solution addresses both problems: feed them mother's milk, "even babies who cannot swallow."
Stella Biblis, conceived by artificial insemination, was John McKenzie's baby story on ABC. Her father Christopher contracted leukemia when he was a teenager so he deposited healthy sperm into the bank before undergoing radiation therapy. The radiation saved his life but killed his sperm so the only babymakers he had left were those in deep freeze. Biblis was married last year. He made a sperm withdrawal and thawed out his 22-year-old squigglers. "Amazingly" on their first attempt they performed as required.
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