The smallest baby in the world is registered in Japan: born with 268 grams – 27/02/2019

A hospital in Tokyo has authorized the medical badysis of a baby born last August with 268 grams of weight. He has been in an incubator ever since, making him the youngest child in the world to survive a premature birth.

The baby was born through an emergency procedure at Keio University Hospital. He was treated in intensive care for newborns until he reached 3,238 grams, confirmed the doctor in charge, Takeshi Arimitsu.

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Arimitsu pointed out that although it's a case "very risky", success shows "there are possibilities for the baby to leave the hospital even though he was born very small"

For her part, the mother of the child, who did not want to make his name public, expressed his "happiness to see him so big" then to "not know if he could survive ".

According to the University of Keio, it is the youngest child to have survived an untimely birth, a record that, until now, bore a baby born in Germany in 2009 with 274 grams of weight. In this same country was born in 2015 the youngest girl of which there exists to date evidence, with only 252 grams.

In Japan, the country where child mortality is lowest according to UNICEF data, the survival rate of newborns weighing less than one kilogram is 90%, although this proportion is reduced to less than 50% for babies under 300 grams.

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There were 23 babies born prematurely weighing less than 300 grams and who survived. Of these, only four were men, according to the website Register of the smallest babies (registration of the smallest babies).

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