A baby born weighing less than half-a-bag of sugar has been back to hospital to say thank you to doctors five years later.
Kai Brown was the smallest baby to survive at the Jessop Wing, Sheffield, when he was delivered by Caesarian at 26 weeks. He had not been growing properly and doctors were worried he would die if his mother’s placenta failed.
He was given only a small chance of survival and weighed half the normal weight of a baby born at that stage of pregnancy.
Kai, of Lowfolds, Monk Bretton, spent three months in intensive care before he was well enough to be transferred to Barnsley Hospital. Mum Cat, 36, said he was now a happy and healthy boy. “He’s into everything at the moment. It’s like he’s wound up in the morning and doesn’t stop until he goes to bed at night.”
"We are very lucky and will always appreciate every minute we have with him.”
Full story in the Chronicle on Friday.
