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Jari Lopez was born 16 weeks early, weighing 11.5 ounces and measuring 9 inches long. Like all babies born this early, he was placed on a ventilator, and his outcome was uncertain. However, he beat the odds. “He ended up going home on just a little bit of oxygen which is very, very common because we live at about a mile high,” said Jennifer Anderson, M.D., practice medical director and neonatologist at Pediatrix® Medical Group of New Mexico. “So, at our altitude, a lot of our premature babies go on oxygen, and he went home on a multivitamin and that was it. His course was remarkably smooth for a baby born this little and this early.”
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