Tokyo: The world’s smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an apple, is now ready for the outside world, his doctor said on Friday. Ryusuke Sekiya was delivered via emergency Caesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension. At 258 grams he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy who weighed just 268 grams when he was born last year. That baby was discharged from a Tokyo hospital in February.
When Ryusuke was born on October 1, 2018, he measured 22 cms tall, and medics kept him in a neonatal ICU. They used tubes to feed him, taking cotton swabs to apply his mother’s milk to his mouth. Seven months later, the boy has grown 13 times, now weighing 3kgs. He will be discharged over the weekend.
