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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Melissa Sigodo

'I was called belligerent for refusing to let my newborn baby son die - he's now 20'

A boy has defied medics who said he wouldn't live beyond two weeks by celebrating his 20th birthday.

Khalid suffered kidney failure while in the womb but his loving mother Ann refused to listen to doctors at two separate hospitals who said he would die if she left the ward with him.

Days after his birth, the mother-of-four from Surrey says she pleaded with staff to let her breastfed the infant from home.

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