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[quote=Anonymous]Keeping track of the world's tiniest babies

Worldwide 'Tiniest Babies Registry' was created at UI Health Care to give parents hope

On New Year’s Day in 1994 Ed Bell, MD, helped deliver a baby girl born at 27 weeks gestation. She weighed 359 grams, or about 12.6 ounces.

"The baby’s parents asked me if I knew of other infants born that small who had survived,” says Bell, the baby’s neonatologist at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital. “That made me curious, so I started a search.”

With internet not yet available, Bell started poring through medical journals and news accounts, “gathering up information about these extremely rare children.”

His initial search netted a handful of results. He kept looking, and gathered enough information to launch the Tiniest Babies Registry in 2000, a listing of the world’s smallest surviving babies, all of whom were born weighing less than 400 grams, or 14.1 ounces.

https://uihc.org/childrens/news/keeping-track-worlds-tiniest-babies

The Tiniest Babies™
Welcome

We have developed this website to serve as a registry for the world's smallest surviving babies. Because the survival of infants with birth weights less than 400 grams (14.1 ounces) is very uncommon, it is not possible for meaningful data on the outcomes of these infants to be collected in a single neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or even a network of NICUs. We hope over time to collect and collate data on the long-term health, growth, and development of this vulnerable group of infants. The infants listed in this registry include those reported in the lay media as well as medical journals. The registry also includes infants submitted directly to the registry by the patient or a family member with verification by a health provider. In addition, some infants are submitted directly by the health provider. We have not attempted to verify the information listed, since in most cases this would not be possible.

https://webapps1.healthcare.uiowa.edu/tiniestbabies/Infant/List/All

an example from the registry:

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