Mon Dec 5, 2022 – 9:37 am EST
(Right To Life UK) — A baby born a week before the abortion limit in the U.K. and thought to have only 24 hours to live has just celebrated his first birthday.
Baby Hector was born in Scotland last November at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh, when his mum was just 23 weeks pregnant. His mum and dad, Marie Clare and Angus, had lost a baby during pregnancy three years before so this pregnancy was considered high risk.
Marie Clare said “When I went to hospital with sharp pains doctors told me I was in labour.”
“I said ‘no’ and tried to hide the labour pains from them as I desperately didn’t want him to arrive early.”
“[Doctors] said there was a very slim chance of survival under 23 weeks. I looked at my watch and it was one minute to midnight and so I said in one minute I will have reached 23 weeks.”
The couple weren’t allowed to see their son for almost two days
Hector was born a little over an hour later at 1:14 a.m. Because he was so premature, he
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