They unloaded the smallest baby in the world: they weighed 268 grams at birth

The baby was born from an emergency procedure at Keio University Hospital and was treated in intensive care for newborns until the baby was born. to reach 3,238 grams, the doctor in charge, Takeshi Arimitsu, confirmed to the EFE agency.

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.

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Also in Germany was born in 2015 the smallest girl who has been registered so far, with only 252 grams.

In Japan, the world's country with the lowest infant mortality rate According to UNICEF data, the survival rate of babies weighing less than one kilo is 90%, although this proportion is reduced to less than 50% for babies under 300 grams.

Arimitsu pointed out that although it's a case "very risky"success watch "There are chances that the baby leaves the hospital while he was born very small".

For her part, the mother of the child, who did not want to give his name to the public, told him "The happiness of seeing him so big" and after "Not knowing if I could survive".