A doting dad has recalled the heart-wrenching moment medics asked him whether they should save the life of his baby son or fiancee when she went into premature labour at just 24 weeks.
Dad-of-six Michael McConnell, from Falkirk, said a medic pulled him to one side and whispered: "If push comes to shove, who survives, mum or baby?" His partner Stephanie Brown, 29, was giving birth to the couple's son Michael, known as Mickey, at 16 weeks early on November 8 last year.
Despite the most traumatic of births, Mickey arrived with "an almighty roar" that stunned medics. The youngster is now being treated at Edinburgh's Sick Kids.
