6/21/2003: Tiny baby survives

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Hello Aaliyah Hart. She was born to mom Lorraine three months premature. She was 7 inches long, and fit in the palm of her mother's hand. She weighed 12 ounces and was not expected to live.

Look at your own pinky, and imagine a human hand so small it could wrap around just the last section of it, from the last joint to the tip.

Docs gave her a 10% chance of living. But three weeks later, Aaliyah has beaten the odds and survived, and the birth was announced yesterday. Smallest baby on record in Britain to survive.