Michelle Butler of Alabama was just 21-weeks into her pregnancy when she prematurely gave birth to twins on July 5, 2020. Curtis Means and his sister C'Asya weren't expected to survive, doctors said. His sister died one day after birth, but the 15-ounce baby boy held on and surprised everyone including doctors when his health started to look up –– leading him to break the Guinness World Record for the World's Most Premature Infant to Survive. "My prayers have been answered," Butler told Good Morning America . "I gave God my little girl and he let me continue to be the mother to Curtis." Curtis's condition was reportedly so dire while staying in the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Women and Infants Center that Butler was forced to wait four weeks before she could hold her son. At the time, he was so small that he fit in the palm of her hands. He eventually spent nine months in the NICU. "He showed a lot of response to the...
