One of Britain’s tiniest babies, who weighed just 1lb 4oz when he was born, survived after he was placed in a plastic bag to keep warm. Pace Galbraith was born at 25 weeks – a staggering 101 days early – and was so tiny he was too frail to even hold or cuddle.
Doctors placed the new-born in a plastic drawstring neonatal bag moments after he was delivered on March 11 to maintain his temperature. The tiny tot has spent the first weeks of his life in intensive care at Bristol Children’s Hospital while his lungs are developing.
His parents Bella and Paul, from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, now face a 150-mile round-trip to visit their son. Bella, 33, who has three other children, said: “He was actually trying to be born at 24 weeks but we had some drugs to try to delay it. When he was at 25 weeks, he decided he had enough.
