‘Micropreemie’ baby who weighed 1lb and 1oz at birth goes home from hospital

NaKeya Haywood holding six-month-old Nyla Brooke Haywood at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Illinois (NaKeya Haywood via AP)

A baby girl who weighed just over 1lb when she was born prematurely in November has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after spending her first six months in hospital in the US.

Nyla Brooke Haywood was treated to a send-off party at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Illinois, attended by family, friends and hospital staff before the six-month-old was taken home by her first-time parents, NaKeya and Cory Haywood, of Joliet.