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Charles Gray & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Mum's heartbreak as two-day-old baby with rare condition dies in her arms

A mum has described the devastation of losing her baby son at just two days old after he was diagnosed with a rare condition..

Sara Harrold, from Wakefield, was pregnant with Arlo Jay Brian when doctors told her he had a defect called CDH, where the diaphragm does not close tight enough, meaning abdominal organs push through the hole into the chest cavity.

He had a 50/50 chance of survival, but was born prematurely on March 15 and died in Sara's arms just two days later.

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