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Miracle baby : Born at just 24 weeks with a hole in heart, now a healthy kid

Middlesbrough,UK: A ‘miracle' baby Aiden McLaughlin who was born at just 24 weeks with a hole in his heart in middlesbrough,England has spent the first year of his life in hospital but now finally he 

India TV News Desk Updated on: January 22, 2014 7:19 IST


Finally Aiden was born on July 16, 2012, at just 24 weeks and three days.

Under UK guidelines, 24 weeks into pregnancy is the legal abortion limit and between 23 and 24 weeks, the decision to provide support to a premature baby is down to clinicians.

If Aiden had been born just a few days earlier, doctors would not have attempted to save him and his birth would have been classed as a miscarriage.

Sean told Daily Mail that Aiden was rushed for neonatal care at Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital immediately after birth and spent 15 weeks there before being discharged.

But he was back within days due to a chest infection.
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