The Brief

A baby born at just 21 weeks gestation last July in Iowa City, Iowa, has just celebrated his first birthday—and received a Guinness World Record for being the most premature baby.

Nash Keen was born on July 5, 2024 — 133 days earlier than the expected due date and weighing only 10 ounces (283 grams) -- about the size of a bar of soap. He spent the next six months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital before he was allowed in January to go home to Ankeny, Iowa, with parents Mollie and Randall Keen.

What they're saying:

"Nash is so full of personality. He’s a happy baby," Mollie Keen said Wednesday, adding that he's slept through most nights since coming home from the NICU. "Being in the NICU as long as he was

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