- Who
- Curtis Means
- What
- 132 day(s)
- Where
- United States (Birmingham)
- When
Curtis Zy-Keith Means (USA) was born to Michelle Butler on 5 July 2020 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital in Alabama, USA, at a gestational age of 21 weeks 1 day, or 148 days, making him 132 days premature.
The standard gestational period for a full-term baby is 40 weeks (280 days).
When born, Curtis weighed just 420 g (14.8 oz) and doctors initially gave him a sub-1% chance of survival.
Curtis was discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and permitted to return home in April 2021, aged nine months. He celebrated his first birthday on 5 July 2021.
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