The world’s smallest baby was born at 23 weeks and 3 days gestation and weighing just 8.6 ounces in 2018. For reference, that’s about a little more than how much a typical hamster weighs.
The micro preemie was called baby Seybie by her caretakers at San Diego’s Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns.
Baby Seybie was born at least 16 weeks early in December 2018 and spent almost five months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. She had to be delivered early because the mother, who remains anonymous, had preeclampsia.
