Premature baby Tom Thumb born at 25 weeks weighing half a pound survives

By Allan Hall in Berlin Published: 11:59AM GMT 05 March 2010

Previous of Images Next A kid weighing usually 275 grams after being innate at University Hospital Goettingen in Germany is the world"s lightest ever to have survived a previously bieing innate Photo: EPA A kid weighing usually 275 grams after being innate at University Hospital Goettingen in Germany is the world"s lightest ever to have survived a previously bieing innate Photo: EPA

The baby, who doctors dubbed "Tom Thumb" was less than the length of a piece of A-4 paper and weighed a fragment over 9.7 ounces (275 grams) when he was innate by Caesarean territory fifteen weeks betimes at the University of Medicine at Göttingen in horse opera Germany in Jun 2009.

For twenty-four hours a day, the kid was in an incubator and bending up to stuff oneself tubes, respirating tubes, a heart monitor, a catheter and a engorgement of electronic inclination to guard each critical pointer as he faced risks of intelligent haemorrhage or organ failure.

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In December, the baby was eventually conspicuous "stable" after achieving a weight of 8.2lbs - deliberate an normal bieing innate weight in Germany.

Now, 9 months after his birth, doctors have authorised the unnamed boy"s relatives to take him to the family home in Eighsfeld, executive Germany, after statute that he is clever sufficient to survive.

Officials from Göttingen sanatorium pronounced that, carrying checked all accessible annals of previously births worldwide, they were incompetent to find a viable bieing innate of a kid at a reduce weight. Three girls - together with one innate in the US at only 244 grams - had survived reduce bieing innate weights. The smallest kid formerly available weighed 10.4 ounces.

Dr Stephan Seeliger, an consultant on previously babies, said: "I spoke to the relatives about the bieing innate previously - either we should go for it or not. In the end, I said: "Good thing we did it!""