He virtually condemned us all to death. Chances of survival following preterm birth
Medical advances mean that we are getting better at treating preterm babies but the chances of survival still depend on gestational age (week of pregnancy) at time of birth.
* Less than 22 weeks is close to zero chance of survival * 22 weeks is around 10% * 24 weeks is around 60% * 27 weeks is around 89% * 31 weeks is around 95% * 34 weeks is equivalent to a baby born at full term.
World's most premature baby defies sub-1% survival odds to break record
"I've heard of premature babies.. but I don't think I've heard of one surviving at 12 weeks. (That is, after all what "viability" means)"
Excellent point. Unforgivably, almost, i missed it.
By Adam Millward Published 10 November 2021
Born in July 2020, exactly one month after the previous world’s most premature baby, Curtis Zy-Keith Means from Alabama, USA, would go on to make history.
Initially, Michelle "Chelly" Butler's pregnancy seemed to be progressing well and on track to go to full term. But on 4 July 2020, she had to be rushed into hospital for emergency surgery.
She was quickly transferred from her local hospital to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), which is heralded for having one of the leading neonatology and paediatric departments in the country.
Thanks to the quick response of the experienced medical team at the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU), following his mother's wishes, Curtis was delivered at a gestational age of 21 weeks 1 day (148 days) at around 1 p.m. on 5 July.
His original due date had been 11 November. A full-term pregnancy is typically 40 weeks, or 280 days, making Curtis 132 days – almost 19 weeks – premature.
As a newborn, Curtis weighed only 420 g (14.8 oz), which is about the same as a soccer ball.
"The medical staff told me that they don’t normally keep babies at that age," Chelly told Guinness World Records in an exclusive interview. "It was very stressful."
On the day he was born, Curtis weighed more than seven times less the weight of an average full-term newborn
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