May died as an infant and only three survived their long-lived father.
Very few infants survive when they are born at 22 to 23 weeks of pregnancy.
The longest an infant has survived on the pump is three months, he said.
If the two sides are mostly joined, the infants do not survive.
Very few infants with Wolman disease survive beyond the first year of life.
The infant will usually not survive more than a few hours.
No treatment is available for anencephaly because the infants usually do not survive more than a few hours.
But for every 1,000 live births, 25 infants do not survive 12 months.
They waited to see if the infant could survive without oxygen.
Consequently, infants survived only if mothers had a strong desire to hold them.