Wed Nov 17, 2021 – 8:27 pm EST
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (LifeSiteNews) — The Guinness Book of World Records announced last week that a boy born more than four months before his expected due date is officially the world’s most premature baby ever to survive.
Curtis Means, born at 21 weeks and one day on July 5, 2020 with a twin sister who didn’t survive, is now healthy and thriving 16 months after his birthday.
Interestingly, he was born exactly a month after the birth of the previously declared world’s most premature baby, Richard Hutchinson, who was said to have a zero percent chance of survival. According to Guinness World Records’ (GWR) Adam Millward, prior to Richard, the official record “had remained unbroken for 34 years.”
Dr. Brian Sims, the physician who oversaw Curtis’ delivery, told Millward, “The numbers say that babies at this age will not survive. Mum’s question to me was: ‘Can we give my babies a chance?’”
The boy’s mother, Michelle “Chelly” Butler, said, “They didn’t know if he was going to survive so they just told me to keep on praying,” adding that the time “was very stressful.”
Millward reported that after Butler was rushed to
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