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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Susan Newton & Ellie Kemp

'I gave birth to my miracle baby at 23 weeks and it took him 15 minutes to take his first breath'

A first-time mum who gave birth to a 'miracle' baby at 23 weeks old said she knew 'something was wrong' when she became unwell.

It took Jase-James McCready Rogers 15 minutes to take his first breath when he was born at Blackpool Victoria Hospital on January 5 2020. Leah Rogers, 23, had gone to the hospital when she began bleeding and being sick, to be told that shockingly she was 10cm dilated.

Tiny Jase-James weighed only 1.5lbs when he was born and Leah described the birth as a 'very scary time'. She told LancsLive: "There was a room just full of doctors and nurses and I was very young at the time, around 19 or 20. I was just waiting to hear the worst news."

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