TOKYO: A baby born in Tokyo - weighing the same as a large onion - has gone home healthy, becoming the smallest newborn boy in the world to leave hospital safely. The tiny tot weighed just 268g when he was delivered at 24 weeks, reportedly after he stopped...
Keio University Hospital said the boy was believed to now hold the record for the smallest newborn boy to be discharged from a hospital in good health.
The record was previously held by a boy born in Germany in 2009 weighing just 274g, the hospital said, citing a registry put together by University of Iowa, in the US, for the world's tiniest surviving babies. The smallest surviving girl was born in Germany in 2015 weighing 252 grams, according to the registry.Experts are still not entirely sure why, though there have been suggestions it could be partly related to the slower development of lungs in male babies, Keio University Hospital said.Japan has one of the world's lowest rates of infant mortality, according to Unicef.
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