Tom Thumb baby goes home
Filed under: Premature babies — Alan @ 4:35 am
In June of 2009 doctors dubbed a small newborn who weighed just a little over 9.7 ounces and measured less than a sheet of A-4 paper length wise ‘Tom Thumb’ after his birth that came 15 weeks prematurely at the Gottingen, Germany University of Medicine.
After his birth, the baby was placed in an incubator, fed through feeding tubes, hooked up to a heart monitor, breathing tubes, other electronic monitors, and a catheter for every hour of the day. Doctors feared that the child would soon face organ failure or cerebral haemorrhage.
Finally the baby was labelled stable once he reached the weight of 8.2lbs in December and now after nine months since his birth doctors are able to allow its parent’s to take it home deciding that the boy will now be able to survive on his own.
Gottingen hospital officials stated that after they researched all the records of premature births globally they were not able to find a viable birth rate of any other boy at the same weight or lower. There were three girls, including one from the US that weighed in at 244 grams, that was able to survive. The smallest boy on the books that survived weighed in at 10.4 ounces.
A premature birth expert, Dr. Stephan Seeliger, stated that he spoke to the parents at length before the caesarean birth about whether they should take the chance or not and at this point he is very glad that they decided to go for it.
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