Nash Keen, born at exactly 21 weeks, 133 days ahead of his mother’s due date, has been recognized by Guinness World Records
An Iowa toddler who was born when his mother was less than five months pregnant isn’t only the most premature baby recognized by Guinness World Records after recently turning one.
As his mother, Mollie Keen, put it, Nash Keen is also “very determined, curious … and he’s just all smiles all the time” after surviving against what Guinness described as “phenomenal odds”.
“Nash is going to be able to … say, ‘You know what? I came into this world fighting,’” the boy’s father, Randall Keen, said in an interview that Guinness published Wednesday. “‘And I’m going to leave fighting.’”
The organization’s database of about 40,000 records has long inspired fascination from the public. And Nash’s path to that database began on 5 July 2024, when he was born at the gestational age of exactly 21 weeks in the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s hospital in Iowa City.
