A baby born at just over a pound goes home after eight months
A baby born at just over 1 pound spent eight months at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Westchester County and has now gone home.
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A baby born at just over 1 pound has left Blythedale Children's Hospital for home, CBS New York reported. The stay in Valhalla, in Westchester County, lasted eight months.
The news is the discharge after that long hospitalization. It is one baby's course, not a prediction for every infant born at that weight, and not a summary of the care that filled those months.
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