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USFK Officer Couple’s Extremely Premature Baby Sent to U.S. Healthy

HWASEONG, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An extremely premature baby of an American military officer couple has grown healthy enough to be discharged from the hospital and sent to the United States, hospital officials said Monday. The baby weighed only 720 grams when born on Sept. 10, just over 25 weeks into pregnancy, through cesarean [...]

Ultra-premature Baby Discharged from Hospital

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Asan Medical Center announced that Cho Geon-woo, a 23.5-centimeter-long baby who was four months premature and weighed only 288 grams at the time of birth, had safely left the hospital last week after 153 days of intensive medical treatment. Cho’s parents from Haman, South Gyeongsang Province, had their [...]