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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paige Oldfield

'My baby was taken from me minutes after she was born - we're praying for a Christmas miracle'

One final push and Loren Bowcock heard the cries of her newborn baby girl fill the room. Doctors held the tot by the exhausted mum’s face for a moment before quickly taking her away. One glance was all Loren got.

She wouldn’t see her daughter – who she named Matilda – until the following day. Matilda was in a completely different hospital, her tiny body lost in a sea of wires. Just days later, medics were preparing her for open heart surgery.

“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” Loren, from the Heaton area of Bolton, told the Manchester Evening News. “I’ve not even bonded with my baby.

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