She was nicknamed “Saybie” by staff at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital in San Diego (USA). In December 2018, the little girl is born… and the doctors are not confident: she weighs only 245 grams for 23 centimeters.
Saybie was born just 23 weeks and 3 days into her pregnancy after an emergency caesarean due to maternal pre-eclampsia – a form of high blood pressure that occurs during pregnancy.
In medical language, we speak of “very great prematurity” or “extreme prematurity” when delivery occurs before 28 weeks of pregnancy, or about 6 months. Experts believe that when birth occurs before 24 weeks of pregnancy, the infant’s chances of survival do not exceed 1%…
A miraculous little girl
But Saybie is a miracle: she “has hardly experienced any of the problems generally associated with very premature babies, such as cerebral hemorrhages or lung and heart problems”, specifies the hospital, in a statement published this Wednesday, May 29, 2019.
And five months after coming into the world, in mid-May 2019, the little girl was able to leave the hospital: “it was a happy infant weighing 5 pounds (about 2.3 kg), in good health” underlined the hospital.
According to the University of Iowa (in the United States), which keeps a register of the smallest babies in the world, Saybie broke the world record previously held by a baby born in 2015 in Germany – this one weighed 7 grams more at birth. A start in life for the less hectic!
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