World's Smallest Surviving Baby Goes Home After Five Months At Hospital

Saybie, The Smallest Baby Ever To Survive Discharged From Hospital After Five Months

• In December 2019, the smallest baby ever born in San Diego California who was just 244 g or 8.6 ounces at her birth.
• The baby girl, who has been named Saybie by the doctors, was born prematurely at 23 weeks.
• She was much smaller than the doctors had anticipated, however, the good thing was she had a strong heartbeat of over 100 beats per minute.
• She was treated in special care for over five months before she was discharged in mid-May.

Believe it or not, miracles keep happening!

The world's smallest baby ever to live has finally reached home around five months after his birth. Saybie, who was just 8.6 ounces (244 grams) at his birth, is officially the tiniest baby ever to survive.

The baby girl was born at 23 weeks and 3 days at her birth. Saybie left the hospital in mid-May after spending five months in the hospital, the Sharp Mary Birch Hospital San Diego announced Wednesday. At the time she was discharged, the baby weighed 5.6 pounds, the hospital announced.

Saybie's mother, who wants to stay anonymous, was taken to the hospital in December 2018 after she felt complications and Saybie was immediately diagnosed with preeclampsia. Then, the doctors decided to deliver the child promptly.

The mother said in a video released by the hospital that she kept saying the doctors that her baby wasn't going to survive as she was only 23 weeks along.

Dr. Paul Wozniak, medical director for neonatal medicine at Sharp Healthcare, said the baby was much smaller than the medical staff had anticipated at her birth. Dr. Paul told DailyMail,

The heartbeat was strong, over 100 [beats per minute], and fortunately, we're able to get a breathing tube in.

He continued,

We tried to weigh her and nothing would record. We found out later, it didn't record if the baby weighed less than 300 grams.

Records say one out of 10 babies in the US is born prematurely; born before 37 weeks of pregnancy.

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