A baby born weighing less than a loaf of bread at just 535g has finally returned home after five months in hospital fighting for her life. Lauren Ormston, 27, gave birth at just 23 weeks after going into premature labour at St Peter's Hospital, Surrey, on 4th March 2022.
Doctors gave baby Isla just a 10% chance of survival as she was so small. Lauren and her fiancé Oliver Dewey, 31, had only just been reassured at a 20-week scan that ''everything was fine''.
After realising that severe stomach cramps could be labour, first-time mum, Lauren, Health-Care facilitator, was induced at 7:20pm and gave birth in two hours with only gas and air at 9:17pm. Baby Isla was rushed to the neonatal unit and was later diagnosed with level two bleed on the brain and a hole in the heart.
