{"id":125786,"date":"2016-09-09T20:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T00:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=125786"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:08:54","slug":"worlds-smallest-surviving-baby-defies-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/worlds-smallest-surviving-baby-defies-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"‘World’s smallest surviving baby’ is thriving and beating the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the German city of Witten, baby\u00a0Emilia Grabarczyk was\u00a0delivered prematurely in the 26th week of pregnancy via Caesarian section. Her entire foot was the size of a thumbnail\u00a0and she reportedly weighed no more than a bell pepper.<\/p>\n

Doctors feared that without an early delivery, Emilia would have\u00a0died,\u00a0as the placenta was not sufficient for her nutrition. Weighing in at just 8 ounces and only 8.6 inches long, Emilia has been called the smallest surviving baby in the world.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Bahman Gharavi, Head of Children and Youth Clinic at the hospital, explained just how amazing Emilia’s survival is.<\/p>\n

“Even children with a birth weight of 14 ounces rarely survive,” he said. After thanking the team of medical experts who cared for Emilia, Gharavi continued, “We have to thank Emilia as well for her own survival. She is a little fighter. For more than six months, it was unclear whether she would survive. Only in recent weeks she is getting more robust.”<\/p>\n