Baby born 17 weeks premature weighed just one and half tins of beans
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA tiny baby has beaten the odds after being born weighing just 1Ib 7oz following her premature birth. Bonnie Elizabeth Morgans broke the record as youngest gestation to survive at one Cheshire hospital, weighing an astonishing 1Ib 7oz.
She was born 17 weeks premature on September 20, 2021 at Leighton Hospital in Crewe. Bonnie's mum, Rachel Morgans, 33, said the 'cut off' at the hospital is 24 weeks, so Bonnie could have been classed as a late miscarriage, but doctors gave Bonnie a chance after she showed a 'sign of life'. Read more:Sister overcame her fear of needles to make a lifesaving gesture for her little brother Bonnie was finally able to come home for the first time on 20 January, and her mum has spoken to CheshireLive about her experience.
Rachel said: "At the end of May 2021, I found out I was pregnant because I thought I had appendicitis, but I never did. "Bonnie was a twin, and I had miscarried the twin, so that's what the problem was.
Bonnie was a suspected ectopic pregnancy, so basically they thought she might have been in the entrance of the fallopian tube. "After a few scans, they decided that Bonnie could be a viable pregnancy, so we went ahead with it. "We've had quite a bad pregnancy.
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