Singapore child, born last year with an extremely small weight of 212 grams, was discharged from the hospital, according to the newspaper “Streit Times”.
It is noted that today it is the smallest premature child in the world.
Six-month-old child was born in the summer of last year. Doctors had to urgently operate his mother, which suffered from an acute form of preeclampsia (high pressure in combination with polyorgan deficiency). This diagnosis is a frequent cause of mortality both mothers and fetus.
Experts expected the weight of the child at the time of birth will be about 400 grams, but the girl was almost twice as much easier. Now the child moved from the hospital to the house to the parents. For the year spent in the clinic, the girl scored 6 kilograms of weight, but it still needs artificial ventilation of lungs and artificial nutrition.