World’s smallest baby boy discharged from hospital

The world’s smallest baby boy is finally going home after months in Keio University hospital. He weighed just 268 grams at birth after he failed to gain weight during pregnancy. The boy was born through Caesarean-section last August and doctors feared his life was in danger. Even his mother didn’t think he would survive. The boy was in intensive care until his weight reached 3.2 kg and he was sent home on February 20.
The previous record was held by a boy born in Germany in 2009 weighing 274 grams, according to the Tiniest Babies registry managed by the University of Iowa.
(Photo:Reuters/Keio University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics)