Most premature baby celebrates his 1st birthday in Iowa
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Iowa City Press-Citizen on MSNTeeny and unstoppable, meet the Iowa baby born at record 21 weeks thriving a year later
From 10 ounces to a world record, how an Iowa baby is defying all odds and rewriting history after celebrating his first birthday
Although most studies measuring premature-baby outcomes start at 22 and 23 weeks — reporting U.S. survival rates between 10 and 20 percent at that gestation — University of Iowa Health Care is among the few hospital systems that take on babies at 21 weeks.
Shortly after his first birthday, Nash Keen has been named the Guinness World Records titleholder for most premature baby.