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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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In Chicago, Linda Hope Delevitt, the smallest baby born in a local hospital at 29 ounces, now weighs nearly 17 pounds approaching her first birthday, one of the world's tiniest survivors, cared for with incubator and blood transfusions.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 12. (UP) - The smallest baby ever born in a Chicago hospital, Linda Hope Delevitt, who weighed 29 ounces at birth now tips the scale at 16 pounds, 13 ounces or nine times her starting weight, as she approaches her first anniversary.
Linda's physician, Dr. Maurice L. Dale, says she's one of the smallest babies in the world to survive.
He recalls that when Linda was born her face was as small as a man's wrist watch and her wrists about the size of soda straws.
She was kept in an incubator, fed with an eye-dropper, and given an injection of half a teaspoon of her father's blood every other day.
Linda is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Delevitt, of 3955 W. Van Buren St., Chicago.
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Approaches Her First Anniversary (Article Dated Sept. 12)
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Linda Hope Delevitt, born weighing 29 ounces in a Chicago hospital, has grown to 16 pounds 13 ounces, nearly nine times her birth weight, as she nears her first birthday. Dr. Maurice L. Dale notes she is one of the world's smallest surviving babies, kept in an incubator, fed via eyedropper, and given blood injections from her father.