smallest micro

387 grams

OMG! That's only 13.6 ounces! Bless that baby's heart!

What happened to your wee tiny baby of 387 grammes?

I didn't care for them until they were much bigger but our unit had two really small ones almost at the same time, one was a 24 weeker at 350gms. One was the survivor of 23 week twins at 343. They both went home but . . . The follow-ups we hear are what one would expect. They both experienced all the complications; NEC, ROP, PVL.

Our unit has had several infants

9 oz is 255g and 10 is 283g so somewhere in between!

I'm not sure what happened to the 387grammer. He grew into a chronic, was off and on nitric, and last I heard was transferred out a stepdown facility that takes stable chronics.

276 grams. Of course it depends on what a person views as a fair to good outcome. If you work in the NICU, you know that's a very relative thing.

How true littleneoRN. Sometimes it's best if the baby dies. I used to not think that until I started working in the NICU. Now I see what they go through and the outcomes if they survive and it's not always pretty. I've seen several 23 and 24-weekers with bad outcomes (NEC, PVL, ROP). We currently have a former 24-weeker who's doing awesome. She's term now and has never had any incidences of NEC, no bleeds, no ROP. That doesn't happen very often at all.