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CAPTION CORRECTION: CORRECTING BYLINE IN IPTC TO HO Neonatalogist Dr. Jonathan Muraskas places his hand next to Rumaisa Rahman, known to be the smallest baby in the world to survive birth, in this file photo taken three weeks after birth, at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. Rahman weighed 8.6 ounces at birth, about the size of a cellular phone. Reuters/Handout/Oscar Izquierdo NO SALES

CHICAGO - A premature infant believed to be the smallest baby ever to survive was called "a great blessing" Tuesday by her mother, who is preparing to take the little girl and her twin sister home from the hospital.




The baby, named Rumaisa, weighed 8.6 ounces when she was delivered Sept. 19 at Loyola University Medical Center — less than a can of soda. That is 1.3 ounces smaller than the previous record holder, who was born at the same the hospital in 1989, according to hospital spokeswoman Sandra Martinez.


Rumaisa, her twin sister, Hiba, and their parents were introduced Tuesday at a news conference at the hospital in suburban Maywood. The girls were wrapped in identical striped blankets.


Their mother, Mahajabeen Shaik, said she didn't "have the words to say how thankful I was" when she first got to hold her children, in their second month.


"It's a blessing, it's a great blessing," said Shaik.


Hospital officials said they're doing so well that Hiba, who weighed 1 pound and 4 ounces at birth, could be released from the hospital by the end of this month, with Rumaisa following as early as the first week of January.

 

[nitewulf]

damn, she's small...i mean really small.

 

[Saturnman]

I wonder what kind of disease and disabilities that child will have to live through. :/

 

[Tarazet]

The mother must have been severely malnourished. :/

 

[Truelize]

The mother must have been severely malnourished. :/

Or she had complications with her pregnancy that forced the babies to be born before they were ready. And the babies are only living today because they defied the odds and were strong enough to stay alive long enough for the doctors to help them along.

Geesh. What a comment. *rollseyes*

 

[MrPing1000]

mmm beef jerky

 

[Azih]

The mother must have been severely malnourished. :/

Dude, it was a premature birth.

 

[mashoutposse]

mmm beef jerky

:lol Wrong.

 

[Folder]

Good news!