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**Update**
This video was first posted with the title
'Please make a donation'. After 2 weeks it
only had 45 viewers. Not a single donation
was linked to this video. Then as soon as it
was changed to 'Half Human half pig'. BANG!
26,000 viewers, #10 most viewed video of NZ
YouTube in November. Even a bebo.com tribute
page with now 46,000 members was started.
Unfortunate, but you need something to stand
out above the shallow stuff on the internet.
Raising awareness and saving this baby's life
is more important that being PC and baby
being long passed away before you have your
Xmas pudding.
Main Article:
Samoa's 'Baby Miracle' needs help to live
She was not expected to survive for more than
a few hours. Doctors had even decided she
should not be fed.
But two months later, after her family
refused to let her slip away, Samoa's "Baby
Miracle" is clinging to life, despite
terrible facial deformities.
Supporters have now launched a campaign to
raise money to get tiny Miracle Tina Julie
Nanai to New Zealand for a full medical
assessment.
Miracle's birth two months ago in a village
on the main Samoan island of Upolu was not
what her parents had expected.
When doctors handed over their baby, they saw
her tiny face was not as it should have been.
Her misshapen eyes were pushed to the side of
her face, and her nose and mouth were
malformed, preventing her from suckling.
Doctors simply told Miracle's parents that
she should not be fed and would die within
hours, Tanupo Aukuso, editor of the Samoan
Post newspaper, said.
But the family refused to listen, and crept
into the hospital to gently drip milk into
the baby's mouth, gradually making her
stronger.
After a week, Miracle left hospital but
doctors say she needs surgery.
"According to doctors she can't survive this
... they also say she has a smaller brain
than a normal baby," Aukuso said.
He said proper scans of the child had still
not been carried out, and money was needed to
get her to New Zealand for a full assessment.
Although Miracle's parents were originally
keen to keep their child out of the
spotlight, they reluctantly agreed to be
filmed for New Zealand television to raise
their plight.
Miracle can be see stretching and yawning and
being fed milk in a syringe in the video, and
being held by her grandmother Veronika.
Aukuso said it was uncertain how much money
was needed to get the child to New Zealand
and treated, but it would far exceed the
family's finances.
"I spoke to one doctor who said it would be
hundreds of thousands of dollars," he said.
After viewing the images of Miracle, New
Zealand plastic surgeon Dr Tristan de Chalain
told a television station the child must be
properly examined.
"She has a significant deformity of the
fronto-nasal area, the area above the nose.
This could be a fronto-nasal dysplasia or it
could be a meningocele, where the brain
tissue is actually growing through the bone
into the area between the eyes," he said.
A website where people can get further
information about Miracle and donate money
can be found at www.babymiracle.co.nz.
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