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Richard Hutchinson: the world's most premature baby is one year old, with a 0% chance of living

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Little Richard Hutchinson was born on June 5, 2020 in a hospital in Minnesota (United States) with a weight of just 340 grams, thus becoming the most premature baby in the world. From the first moment the doctors warned the parents that he had a 0% chance of living.

The little one was born with a gestational age of 21 weeks and two days . The first six months were very hard for the parents, who had to travel daily from their home in Wisconsin to Minnesota to visit their baby because they could not stay in the hospital due to the coronavirus pandemic. After half a year in the hospital, Richard Hutchinson was released from intensive care and was able to go home in early December.

He has now turned one year old and is already listed in the Guinness World Records book as the smallest premature baby in the world who has managed to survive. When he was born he was so small that he could even fit in the palm of his parents’ hand.

According to the magazine ‘Newsweek’, the mother still cannot believe that she has her little one with her, although yes, with a tube to feed herself and with oxygen. They attribute the “miracle” to the struggle that both they and the doctors have had during all this time.

Richard Hutchinson has managed to break the record that ames Elgin Gill has held for 35 years. He was born in Ottawa (Canada) on May 20, 1987 with a gestational age of 21 weeks and 5 days.

What is a premature baby?

In the wake of this news, we want to explain what exactly is considered a premature baby. Taking into account that a full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, a premature birth occurs when the baby enters the world before completing 37 weeks of gestation .

There are three subcategories according to gestational age:

  • Extreme preterm: less than 28 weeks.
  • Very premature: between 28 and 32 weeks.
  • Moderate premature: between 32 and 37 weeks.

The countries with the highest number of preterm births are: India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, the United States, Bangladesh, the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Brazil.

Each year around 15 million babies are born in the world before their time , of which one million die from complications in childbirth. In recent years, the survival rate has increased thanks to medical advances.

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