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LOS ANGELES: A baby believed to be the third smallest birth-weight infant ever to survive left hospital in Los Angeles, doctors and the proud parents said.
Melinda Star Guido was born last August, 16 weeks early, weighing only 9.5 ounces (270 grammes) — less than a can of soda or the same as two iPhones — and has spent nearly five months in a neonatal intensive care unit.
“I am so excited to finally have my baby come home,” said her mother Haydee Ibarra, 22. “We have waited almost five months for this moment. It is so wonderful and we are ready to bring Melinda home.”
She is the third smallest baby to survive, according to Global Birth Registry figures cited by LA County health officials.
Dr Rangasamy Ramanathan, neonatology...
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