He also said he had spent weeks in an incubator as a baby.

BBC: News

In her new incubator, the baby would sit on a heated mattress that would then fold around it creating a closed, sealed environment when held by the parent.

BBC: Baby in an incubator

He mentioned too his own illness as a baby - he'd spent weeks in an incubator - offering a good deal of his personal side, something we rarely see much of in Cardiff Bay.

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Video of the rescue of Baby No. 59 so named because of his incubator number in the hospital was shown on Chinese news programs and websites starting late Monday and picked up worldwide, prompting both horror and an outpouring of charity on behalf of the newborn.

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"We know the best incubator is the uterus, and if there is no reason for a baby to be delivered early then it should never occur before 39 weeks, " says Diane Ashton, deputy medical director for the March of Dimes, which is leading a national campaign to reduce early induced deliveries.

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