CHICAGO (AP) -- One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology. Once the tiniest babies ever born, both girls are thriving, despite long odds when they entered the world weighing less than a pound....
Tiniest Babies Are Growing Up Healthy Despite Odds
By LINDSEY TANNER, Associated Press
Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:52am
Sections: living
Topics: baby child birth good news pregnancy
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