Dear MEL Topic Readers,
'Tiniest baby boy' ever sent home leaves
Tokyo hospital
While most babies are born at between 37 and
41 weeks of pregnancy, premature babies arrive a few weeks earlier. In extreme
cases, premature babies are born only 23 to 28 weeks after pregnancy. Surprisingly,
even if a baby is born weighing under a kilogram, the chance for his or her
survival is nearly 90%, provided that they are born in a good hospital and
taken care by good medical staff. However, the survival rate goes down to half
if a baby is born under 300 grams. That’s because babies are most vulnerable
when their lungs are developing.
Last August, a baby boy was born by an
emergency C-section only at 24 weeks of pregnancy in Japan. When he was born,
he weighed only 268 grams. Having been nurtured in intensive care for six
months, he was released from the hospital in good health weighing 3.2 kilograms.
He is the smallest boy who has survived in the world.
Look at the photos and imagine if you were the
parent of the baby boy who arrived too early and too small.
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