'World's smallest' surviving premature baby released from US hospital

The world's tiniest baby ever to survive, weighing just 245 grams, as light as an Apple, has been discharged after five months, according to a hospital in the US.

Baby Saybie was born at 23 weeks and three days last December at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns in San Diego, CNN reported.

Doctors told Saybie's parents she had just hours to live. But five months on, she was discharged weighing a healthy 2.5 kilograms, confounding all expectations, the report added.

A nurse who cared for Saybie as she battled for survival said her recovery and release earlier this month was a "miracle".

Her mother was experiencing complications and underwent an emergency cesarean section after doctors discovered the baby was not gaining weight and the mother's life was thought to be at risk, the report added.

"It was the scariest day of my life," said Saybie's mother in a video released by the hospital. "I just felt very uncomfortable, and I thought, maybe this was part of the pregnancy."
"She is the smallest baby," the mother said. "But she's mine."
"The registry contains only those infants submitted and medically confirmed. We cannot rule out even smaller infants who have not been reported to the registry."