UK’s tiniest baby who weighed the same as 12oz Coke can and had hands smaller than 1p coins back home after life-saving operations
Isabella Evans was born at 24 weeks and given just a five per cent chance of survival
BRITAIN’S tiniest baby is back home after weighing just 12oz at birth.
Isabella Evans was born at 24 weeks and given a five per cent chance of survival.
12OZ BIRTH MIRACLE
At four months Isabella could finally fit premature baby clothes.
And on December 16 she was allowed to go home to Bishop’s Cleeve, Gloucs.
Ryan, a chef, said: “That was one of the best feelings in the world.”
Now aged ten months Isabella weighs around the same as a newborn at 9lb.
Ryan added: “She’s being weaned off her oxygen support and is expected to make a full recovery.
“We’ve just had a catch-up with her consultant and he was amazed with her progress.”
Kym said: “She has a hernia and a hole in the heart but they are just monitoring those and hope they will put themselves right.
“We can’t thank the doctors and nurses enough at all the hospitals. They are superheroes.”
Isabella tipped the scales at 346g (12.2oz). Aaliyah Hart, of Birmingham, weighed 340g (12oz) in 2003 and is now 16.
The world’s smallest baby, a boy, was born last August in Tokyo weighing just 268g (9.45oz).
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