Grabarczyk weighed just 227 gram at the time of birth.
Emilia Grabarczyk, the lightest premature baby to survive is nine months old now. Born via caesarean section at 25 weeks in the German city of Witten, she measured 22 centimeters and weighed just 227 gram at the time of birth.
Even the doctors didn’t have much hope that Grabarczyk would survive. But, defying all the expectations, she has survived and weighs about 3.26-kilo grams now – a healthy weight for a newborn reported The Telegraph.
“Even children with a birth weight of 14 ounces rarely survive. 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,” Dr. Bahman Gharavi, Head of Children and Youth Clinic at St Mary’s hospital was quoted as saying by Telegraph.
When Emilia’s mother Sabine entered her 25th week of pregnancy, obstetrician Dr. Sven Schiermeier warned that the baby would die in the womb without a caesarean as the placenta was failing to provide the baby with adequate nutrition.
Parents Lukas and Sabine were willing to give the child a chance even if the possibilities of survival were too low.
According to Dr. Gharavi, there are no signs of hyperactivity and learning difficulties for Grabarczyk as seen in underweighted children. She even underwent an abdominal surgery at a weight of just 340 grams.