Tiny but mighty

Published June 7, 2019 3:00am ET



The world’s smallest surviving baby, a little girl who weighed no more than a pomegranate when she was born in December, has finally left the hospital.

After her mom rushed to Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns last year, doctors told her they would have to perform an emergency cesarean section to save her life. Baby Saybie came out of the womb weighing 8.6 ounces. Her mother was less than six months into her pregnancy, at only 23 weeks and three days.

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