A baby boy from the United States who holds the record for being the “world’s most premature baby” has defied his zero percent chance of survival and recently celebrated his first birthday.
Rick and Beth Hutchinson welcomed their child Richard Hutchinson when Beth was only 21 weeks and 2 days, or just a little over five months, pregnant. Despite their son’s early birth, Richard marked his first birthday with his parents and other family members on June 5, as per a release by Guinness World Records on June 11.
Baby Richard was supposed to be born in October 2020, but his mother experienced medical complications that pushed doctors to deliver the child earlier.
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