Theo Taylor, Britain's smallest surviving baby boy – weighing just 12 oz. – has beaten the odds and is now a healthy 6-month old, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported Sunday.
Theo, born at 26 weeks and five days, was smaller than his father's hand and faced long odds, as doctors worried about his survival.
Parents Katie Rhodes, 24, and Jay Taylor, 27, rejected termination at his birth March 15, when he was delivered via emergency C-section.
"I had never ever seen a baby that small – I didn't know babies could be that small," Jay Taylor told the Daily Mail. "The doctor said he was about the weight of a can of Coke, but even when I picked up a can, it felt heavier than Theo.
"But he is proving everyone wrong. The doctors that first looked after him came in over the weeks to see him and could not believe how well he was doing."
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