HEALTH NEWS
‘World’s Smallest Baby’ goes home after 13 months in hospital
Last year on June 9, a baby – Kwek Yu Xuan weighing just 212 grams and measuring just 24 cm long was born at Singapore’s National University Hospital (NUH). She was delivered at just 25 weeks. It means she was born four four months premature.
With this, the baby has been called the world’s smallest at birth.
Now, she has been sent home after spending 13 months in hospital.
“I was shocked so I spoke to the professor (in the same department) and asked if he could believe it,” said Zhang Suhe, the NUH nurse, to The Strait Times. “In my 22 years of being a nurse, I haven’t seen such a small newborn baby.”
The baby received 13 months of intensive treatment at the hospital, spending weeks on a ventilator, and now weighs a much healthier 6.3 kg.