Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

1lb 5oz premature tot defies medics

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A PREMATURE baby born at just 1lb 5oz has defied “one in a million” odds to survive.

Hanna Rose, 25, had son George at 23 weeks last July, a week before the abortion limit.

He was the length of a hypodermic syringe, his skin was translucen­t and doctors told Hanna and partner Daniel Bownes, 27, he would die.

George had an op and was hit by sepsis and meningitis – and even had a final blessing.

But after 26 weeks in intensive care, he is back home in Worksop, Notts. Hanna said: “We were told George had a one in a million chance.

“At one point a doctor said we had only hours. It’s a miracle that he’s here with us.”

George, seven months, still only weighs 6lb 2oz and needs an oxygen tank to breathe. Some 75% of his cerebellum, the brain area that controls movement, is damaged and a Gofundme appeal has been set up to pay for physiother­apy.

Hanna added: “He’s proved everyone wrong.”

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