{"id":79023,"date":"2019-02-27T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79023"},"modified":"2019-02-27T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:50:47","slug":"cbs-record-breaking-japanese-preemie-weighing-as-much-as-an-onion-at-birth-goes-home-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79023","title":{"rendered":"(CBS) &#8220;Record-breaking&#8221; Japanese preemie weighing as much as an onion at birth goes home healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby born in Tokyo weighing the same as a large onion has gone home healthy. The tiny tot weighed just 268 grams \u2014 under 10 ounces \u2014 when he was delivered at 24 weeks, reportedly after he stopped growing in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>He was so small he fit in an adult&#8217;s cupped hands.<\/p>\n<p>Keio University Hospital said the boy is believed to now hold the record for the smallest newborn boy to be discharged from a hospital in good health. The record was previously held by a boy born in Germany in 2009 weighing just 274 grams (9.6 ounces), the hospital said, citing a registry <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps1.healthcare.uiowa.edu\/TiniestBabies\/getInfantList.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put together by University of Iowa<\/a> for the world&#8217;s tiniest surviving babies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/record-breaking-preemie-weighing-as-much-as-an-onion-at-birth-goes-home-healthy\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Record-breaking&#8221; preemie weighing as much as an onion at birth goes home healthy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ih8Lp6A78H\">https:\/\/t.co\/ih8Lp6A78H<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQnLy4UgT5\">pic.twitter.com\/rQnLy4UgT5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1100898281037725696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby born in Tokyo weighing the same as a large onion has gone home healthy. The tiny tot weighed just 268 grams \u2014 under 10 ounces \u2014 when he was delivered at 24 weeks, reportedly after he stopped growing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79023\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,104,506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-japan-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79027,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79023\/revisions\/79027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}