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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Olivia Williams

Family dealt second blow after baby born with life-threatening condition

Messages of support have flooded in for a family who face being evicted from their home just months after their baby was born with a life-threatening condition.

Hannah Marsden and her partner Michael Lewis, originally from Leigh and living in Warrington, welcomed their daughter Mila-Boo into the world in June last year. But before they could even hold her, she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital for treatment, and underwent her first open heart surgery.

Before Mila-Boo was even born, doctors had told the devastated couple that she had a life-threatening condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Medics told the couple they had three options - to terminate the pregnancy, to let nature take its course, or use all medical intervention possible to try and prolong their baby's life.

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