Baby Bilal, who was born 17 weeks prematurely at just over 23 weeks gestation, is finally home after spending a year at Children’s Minnesota, right in time for his first birthday!
When Bilal was born on March 24, 2024, he weighed just 8 ounces (228 grams). That’s roughly the weight of a small cup of coffee and tiny enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
That makes Bilal the smallest reported surviving infant in the U.S., and the second smallest in the world, according to the Tiniest Babies Registry.