AFTER 13 MONTHS IN HOSPITAL, THE 'WORLD'S SMALLEST BABY AT BIRTH' RETURNS HOME

  • 13/11/2021

An infant believed to be the tiniest in the world at birth has been released from a Singaporean hospital after 13 months of intensive care.
Kwek Yu Xuan weighed only 212 grammes – roughly the weight of an apple – when she was born on June 9, last year at Singapore's National University Hospital (NUH).

According to the BBC, she was born at only 25 weeks, making her four months premature. The baby weighed only 212 grammes (7.47 ounces) at birth, about the weight of an apple, and measured only 24 cm in length.

Her chances of survival were deemed "limited" by the National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore, where she was born. 

Yu Xuan was in the hospital for a long time and had to rely on various machines to survive. Her parents raised $270,601 through a crowdfunding campaign to cover the cost of her lengthy hospital stay.

After her mother was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, a condition characterised by dangerously high blood pressure that can harm and even kill the mother and baby, the baby was delivered via emergency C-section. 

Prior to Yu Xuan, the world's tiniest baby was a 245g baby girl born in the United States in 2018.

Despite the fact that she still has chronic lung disease and will require breathing assistance at home, doctors say she is doing well and has made good progress, and her condition has now improved enough to allow her discharge.

Doctors say Yu Xuan is much healthier now that he weighs 6.3kg (14 pounds).

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