http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/baby-born-at-just-15-weeks-1505200
A hospital's smallest surviving premature baby defied all the odds to make it home for Christmas after her older sister “asked Santa” to make it happen.
Amber-May Bass weighed just over 1lb – little more than a tin of baked beans – when she was born 15 weeks early by emergency caesarean on August 3.
But she has since made a good recovery and is well enough to spend the festive period with her family – granting her six-year-old sister Jenna-Rose’s wish.
Amber-May, now 20 weeks, was the smallest surviving baby to be born at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.
Her parents Nikkie Palmer, 34, and Andrew Bass, 27, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, feared she would not live to see Christmas.
But Amber-May, who was transferred to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, the day after she was born, now weighs a positively plump 5lb 11oz.
Nikkie said: “She’s the best present we could ever have hoped for.
"I really thought this Christmas would never come. She’s doing well.”
Paediatrician Dr Ian Evans added: “As far as I’m aware she’s our smallest baby who has survived.”
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