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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Antony Thrower

'My baby needed life-saving surgery at 6 days old when nurse saw something odd in scan'

A tiny six-day-old baby underwent life-saving surgery when a nurse spotted a potential problem in her 20-week scan which turned out to be a heart defect.

Natalie Robinson, 32, and Mike, 37, at first were not concerned when the nurse struggled to take clear pictures of her unborn child’s pulmonary arteries.

Doctors ordered a further scan and found the tiny tot had a severe heart defect.

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