Powerful Before-And-After Portraits Of Premature Babies
Depending on when they are born, premature babies can face difficult uphill battles. As Quebec-based photographer Red Methot shows in his Les Premas photo series, premature babies often do overcome their many challenges and persevere!
The photo series has people of widely varying ages pose with photos of themselves as premature babies. In most, the trappings of the hospital ICU are still present. Premature babies can be born with under-developed organs, and are usually held in the ICU until their organs have developed fully.
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Felix, born at 24 weeks
Margot, born at 29 weeks
Noah and Nathan, born at 32 weeks
Thomas, born at 23 weeks
Noah, born at 32 weeks. His twin sister Victoria, left in the framed picture, died after living 1 month
Julie, born at 7 months of pregnancy, and her son Kevin, born at 34 weeks
Zachary, born at 27 weeks
Eva, born at 29 weeks
Charles, born at 26 weeks
Tamica, born at 32 weeks (and 26 weeks pregnant at the time of the photo)
Alice, born at 27 weeks
Theo, born at 25 weeks
Emile, born at 26 weeks
Felix, born at 23 weeks, and his brother Alexis, born at almost 33 weeks
Lexiani, born at 25 weeks
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Share on FacebookThis is why late term abortion is horrific!!!!! These are children - not a clump of tissue!
Women don't have late term abortions unless their lives are at risk you idiot. The women who have to have the late abortion wanted to have the babies in the first place. Women who want an abortion do so at a MUCH earlier time when the fetus IS still just a clump of cells and tissues. It's barely a human being yet. Leave our bodies alone! It's OUR own damn decision what we want to do with them. No one else. Respect a woman's right to choose. No matter what that choice is.
Load More Replies...I'm physiotherapist, workin' in NICU with premies for years, and this is awesome. Kids, remember: Force wil be with you, always!!!!
I was born at 32 weeks, my older son at 35 weeks, two of my nephews at 35 and 27 weeks respectively. I am 39 years old now thriving well personally and professionally, my premie son is 5.5 years old and assessed a gifted child, my older nephew is 7 and is already in third grade and top of his class having been assessed a gifted child, and my younger nephew is 3.5 years old and a bubbly, chubby, happy child. There is hope for premie babies.
Awesome. Both my neice and nephew were prem babies. They are two of the most robust children I know. It's hard to think of them being so fragile, tiny and unbelievably vulnerable.
I was born at 32 weeks weighing 3lb 14oz I'm now 30 with two children of my own and I went to grammar school got 10 gcses a-c grades, trained as a legal secretary and now a manager of two preschools, I think the hospitals should display success stories to give parents hope xx
makes one wonder how cold hearted you have to be to advocate aborting a "problem" pregnancy
my son was born at 28 weeks. 3ibs./1ounce. they are all amazing,resilient fighters!!!
They say weeks because there is a huge difference in development each week before a child is born. A 30 weeker and a 32 weeker would only be half a month apart, but would be at very different stages of development. It is medically correct to use weeks, not months, to gauge gestational age. A full term pregnancy is 38 - 42 weeks.
Load More Replies...This is powerful. I was only 2lbs, 15oz. 28 weeks. A long time ago.
This is why late term abortion is horrific!!!!! These are children - not a clump of tissue!
Women don't have late term abortions unless their lives are at risk you idiot. The women who have to have the late abortion wanted to have the babies in the first place. Women who want an abortion do so at a MUCH earlier time when the fetus IS still just a clump of cells and tissues. It's barely a human being yet. Leave our bodies alone! It's OUR own damn decision what we want to do with them. No one else. Respect a woman's right to choose. No matter what that choice is.
Load More Replies...I'm physiotherapist, workin' in NICU with premies for years, and this is awesome. Kids, remember: Force wil be with you, always!!!!
I was born at 32 weeks, my older son at 35 weeks, two of my nephews at 35 and 27 weeks respectively. I am 39 years old now thriving well personally and professionally, my premie son is 5.5 years old and assessed a gifted child, my older nephew is 7 and is already in third grade and top of his class having been assessed a gifted child, and my younger nephew is 3.5 years old and a bubbly, chubby, happy child. There is hope for premie babies.
Awesome. Both my neice and nephew were prem babies. They are two of the most robust children I know. It's hard to think of them being so fragile, tiny and unbelievably vulnerable.
I was born at 32 weeks weighing 3lb 14oz I'm now 30 with two children of my own and I went to grammar school got 10 gcses a-c grades, trained as a legal secretary and now a manager of two preschools, I think the hospitals should display success stories to give parents hope xx
makes one wonder how cold hearted you have to be to advocate aborting a "problem" pregnancy
my son was born at 28 weeks. 3ibs./1ounce. they are all amazing,resilient fighters!!!
They say weeks because there is a huge difference in development each week before a child is born. A 30 weeker and a 32 weeker would only be half a month apart, but would be at very different stages of development. It is medically correct to use weeks, not months, to gauge gestational age. A full term pregnancy is 38 - 42 weeks.
Load More Replies...This is powerful. I was only 2lbs, 15oz. 28 weeks. A long time ago.
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