I was doing a little Kennedy research, and to my surprise, I found the JFK and Jackie actually had a child in 1963, but sadly, the child died an infant just a few days after a emergency caesarean section was preformed. This is from the Wiki...
So, lets say that Patrick was born five and a half weeks later, as was expected, and lived into adulthood. What impact would this have had in both the long and short-term, for the Kennedy family?
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (August 7, 1963 – August 9, 1963) was the youngest child of United States President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and brother to Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. He was born five and a half weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean section at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital in Bourne, Massachusetts, with a birth weight of 4 pounds 10½ ounces (2.11 kg),[1] and was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital where he died two days later of hyaline membrane disease. His obituary in The New York Times stated that, at that time, all that could be done for a victim of hyaline membrane disease "is to monitor the infant's blood chemistry and to try to keep it near normal levels."
So, lets say that Patrick was born five and a half weeks later, as was expected, and lived into adulthood. What impact would this have had in both the long and short-term, for the Kennedy family?