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Izzy Hawksworth & Nia Dalton

Mum asks doctors for tests when baby is born looking 'nothing like her'

A single mum says her 'gut instinct' told her something was wrong when her baby boy was born looking nothing like her. After Hannah Doyle, 36, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, welcomed her newborn son Zander into the world, she noticed he had particularly unusual swollen eyes and didn't resemble either of his parents.

Her mother's instinct was proved correct when she asked doctors to carry out further tests and Zander was diagnosed with a rare condition called Chromosome Deletion Syndrome. Now Hannah wants to raise awareness of the syndrome so other babies born with less chromosomes like Zander are better understood.

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