4/24/2019

JAPAN'S -DARLING-LITTLE -ANGEL- BABIES


THE world's smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an Apple, is now ready for the outside world, his doctor said Friday.

Ryusuke Sekiya was delivered via emergency Cesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension.

At 258 grams [9.1 ounces] he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy  who weighed just 268 grams when he was born last year.

That baby was discharged from a Tokyo hospital in February.

When Ryusuke was born in October 1, 2018, he measured 22 centimetres [8.66 inches] tall, and medical staff kept him in a neonatal intensive care unit.

They used tubes to feed him, sometimes taking cotton swabs to apply his mother's milk to his mouth.

Nearly seven months later, the boy has grown 13 times in weight, now weighing over three kilograms. He will be released from Nagano Children's Hospital in central Japan over the weekend.

''When he was born, he was so small, and it seemed that he would break with a touch. I was so worried.,'' his mother Toshiko told reporters.

''Now he drinks milk. We can give him a bath. I am happy that I see him growing,'' she said.

The smallest surviving girl was born in Germany in 2015 weighing 252 grams, according to a  registry put together by the University of  Iowa of the world's tiniest surviving babies.

The surviving rate for tiny  babies is substantially lower for boys than for girls. [Agencies]

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