Plastic sandwich bag saves premature baby's life

A baby born three months prematurely defied the odds by surviving in a plastic sandwich bag.

Weighing less than 1lb, when she was delivered by caesarean section. Her mum, Sharon Grant was told by doctors her daughter might not live longer than an hour.

Sharon explained that her placenta wasn’t feeding her baby properly “and the umbilical cord wasn’t working well.” If Pixie had stayed inside her mother, she would not have survived, Grant’s doctors said.

“The birth was really stressful, I didn’t know if she was going to survive,” Grant added. “They let me put some music on in the operating theater…they got my blood pressure down and that’s when they put her in a plastic bag.”

She said: “They put her in a sandwich bag straight away to keep her warm and to keep her in a greenhouse-like environment. She was living hour by hour for weeks after that in intensive care.”

“Now she’s seven and a half pounds and doing so well.”

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What an amazing story!

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17 Comments

- - june11 said
  - 10 Feb 2016
    5:06 pm
I have no doubts that a lot of babies would have survived in the past had this technique have been known about. I know a lady whose baby was very cold when she was born. She was quickly put in a warm bath while she was being checked, then place in a humid crib for a couple of days to get her temperature up as high as it was at birth and enusre it stayed up.

- - Mummytoabeautifulprincess said
  - 23 Dec 2015
    3:05 pm
AMAZING!! What a precious little bundle x

- - youngoldlady said
  - 14 Dec 2015
    4:26 am
Wonder what made them think of such a thing, it is amazing what is used to save babies these days.

- - Nas01 said
  - 06 Dec 2015
    10:50 pm
Amazing story. I love those sandwich zip lock bags. Who would have thought!!

- - mom94125 said
  - 17 Nov 2015
    3:34 pm
wow what a little trooper that child is! amazing that such a typical household item helped that child!

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 15 Nov 2015
    2:20 pm
That is amazing to read a story such as that!. I looked after babies weighing less than 700g when they were born and I never came across a sandwich bag being used. Brilliant.

- - mom94378 said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    10:28 pm
OMG! That is truly amazing.

- - cherz said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    5:05 pm
Wow I am lost for words ..
amazing.. wishing all the very best to this beautiful family.

- - curlytops said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    10:52 am
that is an amazing story.

- - taynik46 said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    10:34 am
what an amazing story – thank you for sharing with us. Who would have thought that a humble plastic sandwich bag could be so life saving! – I wish your daughter all the best for her future

- - Tracro3 said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    8:33 am
Awesome you have a tough little girl there

- - mum4107 said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    6:01 am
That is absolutely amazing. I’m glad the baby is doing well

- - mom101628 said
  - 13 Nov 2015
    11:46 pm
Thank heavens we live when we do – just a few years ago this baby wouldn’t have survived.
Thanks for posting your amazing story – and more amazing stories will happen every day due to this new questioning environment we live in.

- - mom81879 said
  - 13 Nov 2015
    6:44 pm
What an amazing story! I always thought my Glad sandwich bags were handy but I never thought they would save a babies life!

- - Carolineb said
  - 13 Nov 2015
    5:55 pm
What an amazing story brought tears to my eyes.

- - mom90758 said
  - 13 Nov 2015
    5:07 pm
What a beautiful girl! She’s growing up very well!!

- - mom104450 said
  - 13 Nov 2015
    4:58 pm
Wow, it is amazing what Doctors and the wonderful nurses can do to help save lives.