European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Neonatal intensive care unit the struggle to save premature babies by Janet d Agostino medical writer Lizabeth Sci l  born 13 weeks Loo soon she led the Sale Harbor of her Mother 5 womb weighing Only 2 pounds i ounces and nol Yel Toady to lace her new world without help her tiny veins could be traced through wrinkly Dusky red skin Twig like limbs appeared As though they would snap at the slightest touch a protruding belly made her look More like a starving infant irom some third world country than a bouncing Ivory baby Elizabeth was nothing but skin and Bones said her Mother. Teresa Scull Ricky her lather said. She did t even look like a baby she was ugly " Teresa had been pregnant Lor Only 27 weeks when the neonatal intensive care unit at Frankfurt Amy regional medical Center. Teresa Scull left with her daughter Elizabeth or. Eduardo Lugo Center Chiel of Newborn services at Franku Elizabeth was bom at the Fra hurl army regional medical Center babies arc usually born Between 37 and 42 weeks the sculls had arrived in Germany with their three  on the a before Elizabeth s birth they were not prepared for their daughter s frail Ness or Lor the confusing journey through the High Lech world of the neonatal intensive care unit where she would spend the lust three months of her life when Elizabeth was 4 Days old. She needed surgery to Correct a defect in her heart called Patent ducts Arteno sus that is common to premature infants ii was Only one of the Many serious complications she would develop while in the unit i could t believe the could do surgery on a Bab that Small Teresa said she was lighting Lor her life and they wanted to Cut her open Elizabeth is now 16 months of ii lie had been born 10 years ago she probably would not have lived but As medical technology becomes More sophisticated the age ill Winch a baby can Surv of outside of the womb Roik Hac with each new  an Plant born at 24  r., 11,0 earliest a Bab i capable of me outside the .-.imh now has a 10 i " no Chan nol survival the condition of premature  is so delicate trial in i holiest   life  i one nurse Lor  Bab the. T Abies need to be u void carefully la Palti f .Inhurt Trie of  in condition can i a very quickly. Said a neonatal Riv clinical specialist info Prematta e  Are not Lully a ready to lunch turn a i then own an Arsenal Page 14 the stars and stripes wednesday