A baby girl born weighing just 245 grams, believed to be the tiniest on record to survive premature birth, has been discharged from a hospital in the US. The baby weighed the same as a large apple when she was born at 23 weeks and three days in December 2018 at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital in San Diego, California. Fighting for life, she was transferred to the intensive care unit of the hospital and doctors told the parents she had just hours to live.
But five months on, she was discharged earlier this month weighing a healthy 2.5 kg , confounding all expectations, CNN reported. On May 29, the hospital announced that the baby was born weighing 245 grams, which means she is now believed to be the world's smallest surviving infant. "After experiencing severe pregnancy complications, the girl's mother gave birth via emergency cesarean section at 23 weeks, 3 days gestation in the womb," the…
