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Antony Thrower & Paige Oldfield

'Doctors warned at my baby's 20 week scan something was wrong and nearly lost her'

A mother whose daughter was diagnosed with a rare heart condition before she was born has spoken of the moment her little girl went into cardiac arrest.

Loren Bowcock, 29, first knew something was amiss at little Matilda’s 20 week scan when a sonographer noticed some of her arteries were crossed over.

Loren pushed to see a consultant and her unborn daughter was diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries, or TGA, a rare heart problem where the two main arteries leaving the heart are reversed.

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