Kuek Yu Suan with his parents
Kwek Yu Xuan was born in Singapore as the smallest baby girl in the world, measuring 24 centimeters and weighing 212 grams. Her mother, Vuon Mei Lin, gave birth to her at 25 weeks, and the baby required 13 months of intensive therapy.
A year ago, the National University Hospital in Singapore gave the girl an average prognosis, but now calls her a “miracle child of the COVID era. Mother Y had to give birth by cesarean section four months earlier than expected because she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia – high blood pressure combined with edema of the internal organs. This condition can occur in the second half of pregnancy and is dangerous for both the woman and the baby.
At the same time, Von’s first birth was successful: her first child, older brother Y, is now four years old. Now the girl’s life is out of danger: she weighs 6.3 kg and is sufficiently healthy, despite periodic breathing problems. During her stay in the intensive care unit, the baby was connected to a ventilator.
Kuex Yu Suan was born weighing 212 grams and could not breathe on her own. Yu Suan’s parents raised 366,000 Singapore dollars (270,000 US dollars) through crowdfunding to pay for hospital services. The previous case, when doctors managed to save a prematurely born girl, occurred in 2018 in the American state of Iowa. There, a baby was born weighing 245 grams.