‘World’s smallest baby boy’ set to go home in Japan

Six-month-old Ryusuke Sekiya is pictured with his parents one day before his scheduled discharge from a hospital in Azumino, Nagano prefecture on April 19, 2019. — AFP: 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 Caesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension. At 258g he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy who weighed just 268g when he was born last year. That baby was discharged from a Tokyo hospital in February.

When Ryusuke was born on October 1, 2018, he measured 22cm tall, and medical staff kept him in a neonatal intensive care unit.Nearly seven months later, the boy has grown 13 times in weight, now weighing over 3 kgs. 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 as if he would break with a touch. I was so worried,“ his mother Toshiko told reporters.The smallest surviving girl was born in Germany in 2015 weighing 252g, according to a registry put together by the University of Iowa of the world’s tiniest surviving babies.

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