The smallest baby to be born and survive in the Memorial Healthcare System has overcome the odds to head home on Tuesday—seven months after she was born.

Bi’Laynie Myna Daucima was born on April 8 at just 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 301 grams, or about 10.6 ounces, and measured only 9.8 inches long.

The hospital system wrote in a news release that she is the apple of her mother’s eye, and "weighed about as much as one, too."

"Bi’Laynie was born near the limits of what you can survive at as a tiny premature baby, and she's a strong fighter and she's done incredibly well, and so we're so happy to celebrate with she and her mom today," Dr. Cherie Foster, the division chief of neonatology at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, said at a news conference. NBC6

On Tuesday, the nurses, doct

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