The Nation - News from March 18, 1985

The 1-pound, 15-ounce baby girl delivered from a woman who was paralyzed by a mistaken injection was in critical but stable condition, a hospital spokesman said. “We’re still optimistic,” said spokesman Elmer Streeter at the Albany, N.Y., Medical Center. Doctors decided to deliver the baby by Caesarean section after her comatose mother, Lillian Cedeno, 21, who was 26 weeks pregnant, developed tissue damage in her lung. The lung damage was the latest in a deterioration in the condition of the Schenectady woman, who was improperly injected with a chemotherapy drug Feb. 27, officials said.