WebMD Medical News Laura J. Martin, MD Dec. 12, 2011 -- Against
heavy odds, the world's tiniest and the fourth-smallest
surviving infants have had normal childhood development, a new
study shows, although the girls’ heights and weights still lag
behind other kids the same age. Little information is available
to doctors and parents on how extremely low-birth-weight babies
develop and grow as toddlers, school-age children, or into young
adulthood. So a report like this offers a rare glimpse at the
long-term health and growth of two of the world's teeniest
premature babies as they get older. Rumaisa Rahman, a girl who
holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of "World's
Smallest Surviving Baby," is at her five-year follow-up doctor's
visit. Born at just 26 weeks after her mother had severe
preeclampsia, a serious condition involving high blood pressure
and other abnormalities during pregnancy, Rumaisa was a twin.
She weighed 9.2 ounces. She was roughly 9 inches long. Rumaisa
spent 142 days in the hospital'