US EditionMost premature baby celebrates his 1st birthday with a Guinness World Record
POLK COUNTY, IOWA, JUL 25 – Nash Keen survived extreme medical challenges after being born 133 days early, spending over six months in NICU at University of Iowa, now thriving with ongoing care.
- Nash Keen was born extremely prematurely at exactly 21 weeks on July 5, 2024, at a medical center in Iowa and defied the odds to survive.
- Doctors said the chance of survival at 21 weeks was zero based on current technology, but Nash's family and care team resolved to beat those odds.
- Nash was born weighing just 10 ounces and spent close to seven months hospitalized in the NICU, during which he underwent four surgeries and required continuous oxygen and daily medications.
- Guinness World Records named Nash the most premature baby survivor after he turned one year old on July 5, 2025, with his father calling him "such a miracle."
- Nash’s story offers hope to other families facing extreme prematurity, while doctors emphasize the NICU as a national treasure supporting such rare survivals.
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Washington.- A baby born at 21 weeks of gestation celebrated his first birthday and among the gifts he received there is a world record Guinness for being the most premature baby. Nash Keen was born on July 5, 2024, 133 days before the expected birth date and weighing only 283 grams, about the size of a bar of soap. He spent the next six months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Stead Family Children’s Hospital at Iowa Health Care Univer…
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A child born in Iowa is celebrating his first birthday and was declared the youngest premature baby ever by Guinness World Records. Nash Keen weighed just 10 ounces, about the same as a bar of soap, when he entered the world at 21 weeks of gestation on July 5, 2024. The formerly tiny newborn, nicknamed “Nash Potato,” is now thriving and hitting milestones after spending six months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the University of I…
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