Guinness Record Holder for Most Premature Baby is Thriving at 1-Year Old–and All Giggles …

Nash Keen preemie baby submitted by University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Childrens Hospital The Iowa boy who was named by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature baby has beat “impossible” odds to reach his first birthday. Born at just 21 weeks gestation – a staggering 133 days early – Nash Keen is now all giggles, said his parents Randall and Mollie Keen. In early 2024, just six months after suffering a miscarriage, the childless couple happily discovered Mollie was pregnant again. “When we went to our doctor’s office for the 20-week scan, I had some concerns about how I was feeling so I asked them to look at me closer—which they normally don’t do at that appointment—and they found I was already two centimeters dilated.” It was an expectant parent’s nightmare: Waiting in a hospital room for days surrounded by doctors and nurses, hoping their baby wouldn’t be born too early. The couple learned that the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at University of Iowa Health Care’s Children’s Hospital had recently started performing lifesaving measures on babies born at 21 weeks gestation. If the baby could hold off until midnight on July 5, it had a
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