Baby Emilia was delivered at 26 weeks after doctors feared
she wasn’t getting enough nutrition, and at 8 ounces, some experts believe
she’s the lightest preemie ever born.
A fetus in the 26th week of pregnancy typically weighs
around 21 ounces, the girl’s doctor, Dr. Sven Schiermeier, told Central
European News (CEN). Emilia was born in a hospital in the western German city
of Witten.
Schiermeier and his team decided to deliver her by caesarean
section because the placenta wasn’t providing sufficient nutrition and they
feared she would die in the womb.
"Even children with a birth weight of 14 ounces rarely
survive,” he told CEN. “We have to thank Emilia as well for her own survival.
She is a little fighter."
Emilia’s parents, Lukas and Sabine Grabarczyk, told CEN
there was no question they were going to give their child a chance, even if the
odds for her survival were low.
Because of her premature birth, Emilia has an increased risk
of hyperactivity and learning difficulties, but so far she shows no signs of
serious disability.
She was initially fed with a tiny tube, and doctors used a
cotton swap soaked in sugar water to soothe her and relieve pain, CEN reported.
When she was just 12 ounces, she underwent abdominal surgery.
“There were many difficult days and many tears, but she
clearly wanted to survive,” Sabine told CEN.
Now, at 9 months old, she weighs 106 ounces and is becoming
more robust.
According to CEN, the previous record for lightest premature
baby was held by Rumaisa Rahman, who was delivered at 25 weeks and weighed 8.6
ounces.
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Emilia Grabarczyk is believed to be the world's lightest surviving baby.
ReplyDeleteShe weighed the same as a bell pepper when she was born 9 months ago. Clung onto life and now weighs the same as an average newborn. Doctors in Germany treating her have labelled her ’the little fighter’.
When she was born her entire foot was the size of a fingernail and she weighed no more than a bell pepper.
Nine months later, the world’s smallest baby Emilia Grabarczyk has defied expectations and continues to make giant leaps.
Born in the Witten, west Germany, measuring just 22 centimetres and weighing a mere eight ounces, it was feared she would not survive.
But the girl, labelled ’the little fighter’ by doctors treating her, astonished everyone and is thriving.
She now weighs in at 7lb 2oz - a healthy weight for a newborn.
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