'Coke Can Kid' Jonathon Heeley's survival as Australia's smallest baby was uncertain in 1992. Next week he turns 30. "Future unknown." That's what was written on Jonathon Heeley's discharge papers when he went home from hospital after being born 12 weeks premature and weighing just 374 grams in mid-1992.
Growing up in regional Queensland, Jonathon Heeley was better known as the 'Coke can kid'. When he has born 12 weeks premature at Brisbane's Mater Mothers' Hospital in 1992, Jonathon was Queensland's smallest baby, weighing only slightly more than a can of Coke at 374 g.
Cheyenne, who has dark hair and blue-green eyes, isn't the smallest baby ever born. That honor rests with Kwek Yu Xuan, who was born at 7.5 ounces — the weight of an apple — in June 2020 in Singapore.
The baby who holds the title of Australia's biggest newborn was Stephen Lyttle, who was born in 1963 weighing 7.399kg, or 16 pounds 5. The average weight of an Australian newborn is about 3.3kg, or around 7 pounds.
Jack Casey weighed just 370 grams when he was born at 23 weeks and four days.
A set of nonuplets was born on 13 June 1971, in Sydney, Australia to Geraldine Brodrick and her husband Leonard. They were five boys and four girls; two of the boys were stillborn and the last of the surviving babies, a boy named Richard, died six days after the birth.
Chiu A. 'She's a miracle:' Born weighing about as much as 'a large apple,'Saybie is the world's smallest surviving baby.
Jeni Bonell and her husband Ray are parents to nine sons and seven daughters, aged between seven and 32.
Mary Jonas (1814–1899) gave birth to 33 children, including 15 sets of boy–girl twins. All were christened, but few reached adulthood. Ten children were still alive when their father John died in 1892.
Seebaer van Nieuwelant (born 27 July 1623), son of Willemtgen and Willem Janszoon, was born south of Dirk Hartog Island, in present-day Western Australia. His father, not to be confused with the earlier Dutch explorer of the same name, was a midshipman from Amsterdam.
The current Guinness World Record for the youngest baby to walk is just 6 months old. Wow. But there may be another contender ‒ Delilah Moore could be the new youngest walking baby, walking unaided at 4 months old, having started standing by herself from 3 months old, according to Bury Times.
The longest recorded human pregnancy was 375 days, or just over 12 and a half months, according to Guinness World Records. During this pregnancy, a woman named Beulah Hunter gave birth to a healthy baby girl in 1945.
Vaginal birth is still recommended is your baby is estimated to weigh less than 5,000 g (10 lbs) if you don't have diabetes. If your baby is estimated to weigh more than 4,500 g (8.4 lbs), and your labor stalls in the active stage or the baby doesn't descend, this is an indication for cesarean delivery.
Some babies are large because their parents are large. Parents may pass along this trait to their children. A high birth weight can also be related to the amount of weight a mother gains during pregnancy. Women who gain a lot of weight during pregnancy often give birth to babies who are large for gestational age.
The most fertile woman in history is alleged to be an 18th-century Russian peasant called Valentina Vassilyev. Between 1725 and 1765, she is recorded as giving birth to a total of 69 children – 67 of whom survived infancy. This included 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
Genghis Khan is known as one of the greatest warriors in the history of the world, but that is not the only thing he is known for. He is also known for being the man who had the most kids in the world. It seems that he holds the record for the most children born to one man.
When Mollie Kaur fell pregnant aged 13, she was met with judgmental eyes and labelled 'Australia's youngest mum'. Six years on, a lot has changed for the now-21-year-old from Melbourne.
A two-child policy is a government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family or the payment of government subsidies only to the first two children. A two-child policy has previously been used in several countries including Iran, Singapore, and Vietnam.
The Sex Ratio in Australia in 2021 is 99.2 males per 100 females. There are 12.84 million males and 12.94 million females in Australia. The percentage of female population is 50.21% compare to 49.79% male population. Australia has 0.11 million more males than females.
In general, infants that are born very early are not considered to be viable until after 24 weeks gestation. This means that if you give birth to an infant before they are 24 weeks old, their chance of surviving is usually less than 50 percent.
Most small babies will be healthy. However, if your baby has fetal growth restriction, this increases the risk of complications and, sadly, also the risk of stillbirth. Your doctor and midwife will monitor you and your baby's health closely to reduce the risk of this happening.
Guinness World Records officially named Curtis Means, born at 21 weeks and one day at UAB Hospital, the most premature infant to survive.