THE third smallest baby to be born and survive is thriving in a neonatal unit in the US despite entering the world almost four months early.
Doctors at the Los Angeles County USC Medical Centre say Melinda Star Guido weighed just 270g - about the same as a can of Coke - when she was born by caesarian section on August 30.
Her official due date was today.
Melinda, born so small she could fit in the palm of her doctor’s hand, received round-the-clock care and her happy parents hope to have her home by New Years Day. She now tips the scales at 1.87kgs.
Mum Haydee Ibarra told the Los Angeles Times: “She was always fighting, all the nurses were saying that
she was really feisty, she was always fighting for her life”.
