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Finished This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman.
This is a seriously fantastic, incredibly sad book.
Vicki gives both to twins incredibly early in her pregnancy (23 weeks, I think) and they weigh a pound or so each. She asks the doctors to let them die, because (a) they were too small to suffer so much and (b) if they survived, they'd probably face a ton of disabilities (severe brain damage, cerebral palsy, etc.). But California law says that the doctors couldn't do that. The daughter dies four days later, but her son, Evan, stays alive. He's in the hospital for something like six months, but eventually comes home.
It's about what this does to her family (she has a husband and a three-year-old daughter) and all the fighting she has to do on behalf of her son.
There's a lot of medical jargon (although she explains it pretty well, too) and if you can deal with that and with the subject matter (again, not a happy book), I'd recommend this.
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This is not a book I could read.
I belive viability is not reached until 25 weeks; unless technology has advanced a long way since Nov. 1999.