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This baby was just 311 grams at birth - but WOW, just LOOK AT HIM NOW!

Connor Florio was born at just 24 weeks old and was just 311 grams but he's leaving hospital!

By Frances Sheen

April 17 2019

One of the world's smallest ever premature babies is finally on his way home after 9 months living in hospital!

Mum Jaimie Florio was just 19 weeks pregnant when doctors in Danbury, Connecticut, USA discovered her baby wasn't developing as he should and they started to perform ultrasound scans every other day in a bid to check his progress.

But at 25 weeks into her pregnancy, a medical team performed a Cesarean-section when they saw that the umbilical cord blood flow had reversed and the baby wasn't thriving.

“I was pretty terrified,' said mum Jaimie to the Today show. They checked the size of him and told me he was only going to be 13 or 14 ounces and even that was too small to be viable."

His birth was a tense time for Jaimie and her husband John as he was whisked away to the NICU.

“Apparently he was crying but we couldn’t hear it. It was so scary,” says Jaimie of her little boy whose hand was so tiny it barely covered her fingernail."

John and Jaimie Florio

Connor was taken to Westchester Medical Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital’s NICU in Connecticut, USA where he was given steroids to help his lungs grow, and a ventilator to breathe with a breathing tube, that looked like a “coffee stirrer.”

“I didn’t really notice how tiny he was. Now, I notice it more when I compare him. He looked like a miniaturized baby,” says Jaimie.

During Connor's time in hospital he experienced a small bleed to his brain and often struggled to breathe with several infections.

But slowly he got stronger and stronger!

And just look at him now! At nine months, Connor (dressed here for Valentine's Day) is going home, and his doctors are very proud.

“I can’t remember in my 40 year career if a baby this small has ever survived,” said Dr. Dennis Davidson, unit chief for Blythedale’s Infant and Toddler unit. “We didn’t find any babies born in the United States that small who survived.

But Connor's personality has helped his battle to grow stronger.

“Everyone kept saying if he wasn’t so feisty he wouldn’t have made it,” Jaimie laughs!