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In the US, the girl came out a palm-sized
At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny that completely fits in the palm of your doctor. her weight was about 9, 5 ounces, which equals 370 grams. It - one of the youngest children ever to be born in the world. Most of these babies do not survive, but now the doctor is ready to send the girl back home to New York for Christmas.
1. Melinda Guido in the neonatal intensive care unit at the medical center in Los Angeles County. Melinda was born prematurely at 24 weeks gestation with a weight of 9, 5 ounces (about 270 grams). She is the second child in the United States, the survivors with birth weight - and the third in the world.
2. Now Melinda 14 weeks. The photograph Melinda Star Guido holds on to the little finger of the mother is in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the medical center in Los Angeles County December 14, 2011.
3. Heidi Ibarra, right, watches as her young daughter examine eyes doctors led by ophthalmologist John Hvonga, December 14, 2011.
Melinda was born at 24 weeks gestation and spent all of his first months in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the medical center in Southern California. Almost every day she visited her mother twenty-two. In addition, the woman tried to stay close to the baby at night.
4. Heidi Ibarra Melinda arms, December 14, 2011.
5. Melinda holds on to the little finger of his mother, December 14, 2011.
Melinda is now 14 weeks, doctors promise that Christmas baby with her mother go home.
1. Melinda Guido in the neonatal intensive care unit at the medical center in Los Angeles County. Melinda was born prematurely at 24 weeks gestation with a weight of 9, 5 ounces (about 270 grams). She is the second child in the United States, the survivors with birth weight - and the third in the world.
2. Now Melinda 14 weeks. The photograph Melinda Star Guido holds on to the little finger of the mother is in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the medical center in Los Angeles County December 14, 2011.
3. Heidi Ibarra, right, watches as her young daughter examine eyes doctors led by ophthalmologist John Hvonga, December 14, 2011.
Melinda was born at 24 weeks gestation and spent all of his first months in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the medical center in Southern California. Almost every day she visited her mother twenty-two. In addition, the woman tried to stay close to the baby at night.
4. Heidi Ibarra Melinda arms, December 14, 2011.
5. Melinda holds on to the little finger of his mother, December 14, 2011.
Melinda is now 14 weeks, doctors promise that Christmas baby with her mother go home.
