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World’s smallest baby boy set to go home after seven months
Doctors at the Nagano Children’s Hospital in central Japan have said world’s smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an apple, is now ready for the outside world.
The baby, Ryusuke Sekiya, was delivered via emergency Caesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension.
At 258 grams (9.1 ounces) he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy who weighed just 268 grams when he was born last year. That baby was discharged from a Tokyo hospital in February.
They used tubes to feed him, sometimes taking cotton swabs to apply his mother’s milk to his mouth.
Nearly seven months later, the boy has grown 13 times in weight, now weighing over three kilogrammes. He will be released from Nagano Children’s Hospital in central Japan over the weekend.
His mother Toshiko told reporters,
“When he was born, he was so small, and it seemed as if he would break with a touch. I was so worried.
“Now he drinks milk. We can give him a bath. I am happy that I can see him growing.”
The smallest surviving girl was born in Germany in 2015 weighing 252 grams, according to a registry put together by the University of Iowa of the world’s tiniest surviving babies.
The survival rate for tiny babies is substantially lower for boys than for girls
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