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...Martin Frustaci, 17 days, the third of Patti and Sam Frustaci's twelve-week-premature septuplets to succumb; of cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies, including all the surviving Frustaci infants; in Orange, Calif. One of the seven, a girl, was stillborn; another died of lung disease in his third day, and another girl is not expected to live. The other three are said to be "showing daily improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 17, 1985 | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...prevent labor. Meanwhile the staff held rehearsals for the coming event. Then last week, when Patti began having trouble breathing (the seven babies were pressing against her diaphragm) and her blood pressure shot up, doctors decided to deliver the infants. Later, the father for several minutes held his stillborn 15.5-oz. daughter, who doctors think died several days before the birth. Said Sam Frustaci, who like Patti is a devout Mormon: "The Heavenly Father had alternative plans for her. She gave up her life for the sake of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Special Delivery in California | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...disease to their babies, who are infected while passing through the birth canal. In infants, chlamydia manifests itself in the form of conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the eye, or as pneumonia. There is also some evidence, Holmes says, that chlamydial infection during pregnancy increases the risks of premature and stillborn births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chlamydia: the Silent Epidemic | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...Resplendent Quetzal," a couple's sole reason for getting married slips out from under them when their baby is stillborn. Each would like to have another baby, but the husband is afraid to ask, and the wife cannot transcend the anger she projects on him and her own guilt at the loss of the child. Instead they go to Mexico where she exploits his love of ornithology and sends him off chasing her imaginary birds, while he fantasizes about pushing her into the Aztec Sacrificial Well...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Wheel of Fortune | 11/13/1982 | See Source »

Thus, in his most defiant manner, Begin declared last week that Ronald Reagan's peace plan for the Middle East was "stillborn." Never mind that the Reagan proposals had been hailed by a wide range of governments and foreign policy experts and even many U.S. Jewish organizations as a bold and promising initiative. Or that the plan was taken seriously by the 20 Arab nations holding a summit last week in Fez, Morocco. To the proud and stubborn Israeli leader, whose cooperation in any Middle East peace process would be essential, the whole idea of the plan was anathema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Defiant No to Reagan | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

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