Smallest Premature Baby Boy Born at 25 Weeks
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by dimaks in Life, News
Premature Baby “Tom Thumb” / Smallest Premature Baby Boy Born at 25 Weeks. “Tom Thumb”, the smallest premature baby boy is born at 25 weeks old and weighing half a pound, survives all the odds. The baby boy was given birth at the University Hospital Goettingen in Germany. He is known as the world’s lightest baby to have ever survived a premature birth.
The baby was called by his doctors as “Tom Thumb” because he was measuring less than a sheet of A4 paper and weighed only 275 grams upon birth by Caesarean section at the University of Medicine at Göttingen in western Germany in June 2009. The premature baby underwent tedious monitoring due to his delicate condition. He was feared to suffer cerebral hemorrhage or organ failure, but luckily he managed to survived and was finally declared “stable” sometime in December 2009 after gaining a weight of 8.2lbs, the considered average birth weight in Germany.
“Tom Thumb” is now the lightest premature baby boy ever born, worldwide record shows. The previously recorded premature baby boy was measuring 10.4 ounces.
As of this time, “Tom Thumb” is with his family in Eighsfeld, central Germany, living a normal life.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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