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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Daniel Keane

‘Miracle’ triplets go back after 17 years to thank life-saver doctors

“Miracle” triplets who spent three months fighting for life in intensive care after their premature birth have been reunited with the London doctors who saved them… 17 years later.

Isabel, Emily and Ben Collier were born after just 29 weeks’ gestation at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on January 8, 2006. All three of them weighed less than three pounds each — well under half the average of a newborn baby. Now they are all healthy 17-year-olds preparing to take their AS-level exams.

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