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The Dailymail reports that he recalled whispering:

"Kimberly, you'll make it"

She had a survival chance of less than 1,000 to one. Every day since then is a triumph.

Now six months later, Kimberly been allowed to go home to her parents in Hanover.

"Babies as small as this usually have no chance," said Dr Oliver Moeller, a heart specialist who treated her.

"We are incredibly lucky that she lived. Such a case I have never experienced. We had a lot of luck ... a lot."

Kimberly is the smallest baby ever born in Germany and luckily for her, also the youngest to survive. She was a mere 10.2 inches long and weighed little more than a package of butter when she arrived during the 25th week of her mom's pregnancy.

The 38 year old mother remained at her daughter's bedside in intensive care at the University Clinic. She was only allowed to stroke her with her finger.

"It was the nicest thing when she would grip my finger in her tiny hands," she recalled.

"She was like a little bear gripping a tree trunk, just hanging on for life as if she was saying 'Don't leave me, mummy'."

The baby was placed in an incubator for warmth and given a respirator to help her breathe and had to be fed through a drip. She was also given some drugs to boost her barely formed immune system.


At three months old they had a scare. Doctors feared she could be blind. But laser treatment corrected the problem.


It was a long road, but she arrived home this week weighing five and a half pounds and measuring 17 inches.

This little girl and the doctors never gave up. Quite a story of triumph