DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa boy who was born at just 21 weeks is now the Guinness World Records title holder for the most premature baby.
Nash Keen, of Ankeny, turned one year old on July 5th as family members celebrated the giggly baby’s milestone, which seemed almost impossible to reach. The path to his birth was a difficult one for parents Randall and Mollie, who lost a previous pregnancy at 18 weeks and feared the same outcome after Mollie began experiencing issues 20 weeks into her pregnancy with Nash.
“We were devastated. We thought we were going through the exact same thing, and we thought we were going to lose this baby,” Mollie said. “At that point, I didn’t know what I could do to turn things around.”
That’s when Mollie learned from a friend about the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, which had begun to perform lifesaving measures on babies born at 21 weeks…