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Case 2 was a VLBW female infant born at 24 weeks' gestation by emergency cesarean section secondary to breech presentation and preterm labor. Her Apgar scores were 6, 5 and 7 at 1, 5 and 10 minutes, respectively.
Very low birth weight (VLBW) A birth weight of less than 1500 grams. Babies with such a low birth weight are almost always very prematurely born. The highest rate of very low ... Read More Viable Able to survive.
Babies whose birth weight is less than 1,500 grams, or about 3.25 pounds, are called very-low-birth-weight, or VLBW, infants. These babies make up about 1% of births. They account for half of newborn deaths.
 See also: Birth weight, Very low birth weight, Neonatal, Low birth weight, Multip
  
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