World's smallest baby released from San Diego hospital

[nitpicker]

https://www.dw.com/en/worlds-smallest-baby-released-from-san-diego-hospital/a-48974041

World's smallest baby released from San Diego hospital

Date 30.05.2019

A baby thought to be the world's tiniest surviving infant has been discharged from a San Diego hospital after five months in intensive care. The baby girl weighed just 245 grams (8.6 ounces) and measured 23 centimeters (9 inches) when she was born in December. She was delivered via an emergency cesarean section 23 weeks and three days into her mother's pregnancy. A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.

"It was the scariest day of my life," the girl's mother said in a video released by the Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns. The family wished to remain anonymous, but allowed the girl to be identified as Saybie — the name nurses gave her.

Doctors told Saybie's father after the birth that he would only have an hour with his daughter before she died. "But that hour turned into two hours, which turned into a day, which turned into a week," the mother said.

Saybie is listed as the world's smallest baby to survive on the Tiniest Baby Registry maintained by the University of Iowa. Dr Edward Bell, a professor of pediatrics at the university, told The Associated Press that Saybie had the lowest medically confirmed birth weight in their records. But "we cannot rule out even smaller infants who have not been reported to the registry," he said.
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Saybie gradually gained weight over the five months she spent in the neonatal intensive care unit and left the hospital in May as a healthy 2.26-kilogram infant.
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[Ilsa]

1. She was born the size of a

Baby doll for three year old girls (and boys). Her length is roughly a handspan. I hope she has no complications going forward.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Meanwhile, the world's biggest baby resides in the WH.

[Luciferous]

3. Lol!!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I worked with a man whose baby was 15 oz.

He made it but boy was it a long. hard haul. Every day we would ask if the baby made it thru the night.

He did have complications but not nearly as bad as some babies do. He had some cerebral palsy and his eyes were weak. But he was ok.

It took months of special care. His medical bill was over a million dollars.