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A San Diego hospital has revealed the birth of a girl believed to be the world’s tiniest surviving baby, who weighed just 245 grams when she was born.
Key points:
- Saybie is the smallest surviving baby on the tiniest baby registry
- Born in December, she went home this month weighing 2 kilograms
- Preeclampsia and very high blood pressure forced the mother to give birth at 23 weeks
The baby named Saybie was born at 23 weeks and three days and was sent home this month weighing 2 kilograms after nearly five months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns said in a statement.
The baby’s family gave permission to share the story but wanted to stay anonymous, the hospital said.
Saybie’s ranking as the world’s smallest baby ever to survive is according to the tiniest baby registry maintained by the University of Iowa, the hospital said.
Edward Bell, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Iowa, said Saybie had the lowest birth weight of those submitted to the registry.
“The registry contains only those infants submitted and medically confirmed,” he said in an email.
“We cannot rule out even smaller infants who have not been reported to the registry.”
The mother described the birth in a video produced by the hospital, calling it the scariest day of her life.
She said she was taken to the hospital, where she was told she had preeclampsia and very high blood pressure and that the baby needed to be delivered quickly.
The mother said she told medical professionals that she didn’t think her daughter would survive because she was only 23 weeks. Babies typically are born at 40 weeks.
“They told my husband that he had about an hour with her and then she was going to pass away,” she said.
“But that hour turned into two hours, which turned into a day and then a week.”
According to the tiniest baby registry, only 27 children have survived with a birth weight of less than 300 grams.
The previous tiniest surviving baby, a girl born in Germany in 2015, was born weighing 252 grams.
In February, a boy who was born weighing 268 grams was released from a Tokyo hospital.
AP
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