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A baby born weighing less than a pound has beaten the odds and celebrated his first birthday, becoming the most premature baby to survive, according to Guinness World Records.
World’s most premature baby, given 0% odds of survival, celebrates first birthday. When Beth and Rick Hutchinson (both USA) welcomed their son into the world on 5 June 2020 – several months ahead of schedule – he was so small that he could fit into the palm of one of their hands.
On Wednesday, Guinness World Records named Curtis, who was born 132 days early, the world’s most premature infant to live to a first birthday. He is now 16 months old. Babies born that...
Curtis Zy-Keith Means, now 16 months old, has set a new world record for the world’s most premature baby to survive. Curtis’ mom, Michelle Butler, gave birth on July 5, 2020 at 21 weeks at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital (UAB).
The former most premature baby to survive, Richard Hutchinson, enjoying his first birthday cake. More recently, reports suggest that this age was matched by Frieda Mangold, who was born to Yvonne and John Mangold in Fulda, Germany, on 7 November 2010. Photo credits: Left - Michelle Butler, Right - Andrea Mabry.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama boy who weighed less than a pound at birth after his mother went into labor at only 21 weeks and one day of gestation has been certified as the world's most...
Guinness World Records – The most premature baby to survive is Curtis Zy-Keith Means (U.S.A.) who was born to Michelle Butler on 5 July 2020 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital in Alabama, U.S.A. at a gestational age of 21 weeks 1 day or 148 days, making him 132 days premature.
Curtis Zy-Keith Means (USA) was born 132 days premature, at a gestational age of 21 weeks 1 day. He weighed just 420 g (14.8 oz), which is about as much as an American football. Doctors initially said he had less than a 1% chance of survival, but four years on, he’s thriving.
An Alabama boy who was born 19 weeks early and weighing less than a pound crushed doctors’ expectations to become certified as the world’s most premature baby to survive.
Guinness World Records and the UAB Hospital in the US state of Alabama said Curtis Means, who weighed only 420 grams at birth, set the new record. Born 132 days premature on July 5, 2020, with a twin who didn't survive, Curtis is now healthy and 16 months old.