Overview

• Marie arrived via C-section in February at 26 weeks with a birth weight of just 265 g, ranking her 14th among the smallest surviving preemies on record.
• After three months of specialized treatment at Kinderklinik Dritter Orden, her weight has more than quadrupled.
• She has reached a critical milestone by drinking on her own, indicating steady improvement.
• Marie remains under close observation at Klinikum Passau’s highest-level perinatal center for premature and newborn infants.
• Advances in neonatal medicine have improved outcomes for extremely low-birth-weight babies, with 1,071 infants under 500 g born prematurely in Germany in 2020.