All news on the topic: Miracle babies

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Mum gives birth to 200-million-to-one identical triplet girls without using IVF
Melany Basualdo, who is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, had Damaris, Aymara and Emily, naturally without IVF and has spoken of her "complicated" routine they share
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Mum 'heartbroken' as one twin dies and second diagnosed with rare condition
Elaine Avery from Southampton, was shocked to discover she was expecting twins. She then found out one of the twins had died and the other was unlikely to make it because of chronic lung disease
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Girl, 7, defies doctors as revolutionary new treatment helps rare condition
Doctors at Birmingham Children’s Hospital said Inaaya Shabbir would unlikely live longer than six months when she was born with Wolman’s Disease, a condition that causes multi-organ damage
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Little miracle as girl who was predicted to never walk takes her first steps
Alice Thomas and Dan Young from Evesham, Worcestershire, were overwhelmed with joy when their daughter Lily took her first few steps - against all odds after her diagnosis
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Miracle baby's 1st birthday 3 years after mum used dead husband's frozen sperm
Marking Matilda's 1st birthday, Sian Goodsell has told the Mirror of her overwhelming joy at having her baby despite her husband's death of liver and bowel cancer
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Toddler born with rare conditions has had five major surgeries in short life
Aria Fionda was born with a rare congenital conditions called Oesophageal Atresia (OA) and Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula (TOF), and spent time on a ventilator and hooked up to machines
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Giant baby born over 14lbs is biggest Dr has ever seen & stops people in street
Sonny Ayres is the biggest baby his birth hospital had seen since way back in 2010. For parents Britteney and Chance, it is the third baby born over a whopping 13 pounds
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One of UK's smallest babies weighed 328g and has spent whole life in hospital
Chantelle and Daniel Chambers discovered their newborn daughter Robyn was one of the 'smallest babies' ever born in the UK, with doctors working hard to keep the 328g infant alive
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Mum's 'parental instinct' helped save child's life – now she's warning others
Faith Roberts, who was the world’s "oldest" frozen egg baby when she was created from an egg mum Alannah had frozen some 13 years earlier, could have been paralysed by the wrongly diagnosed tumour
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Baby born with 14 fingers and 12 toes hailed as Hindu goddess incarnation
The 'miracle' baby was born in a city in the north of India and her family believes she is the embodiment of a popular local deity, a young girl who has several arms
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Christian mum who refused abortion after cancer diagnosis given shattering news
Michigan woman Tasha Kann was 20 weeks pregnant when she was told she had a rare form of brain cancer and she should abort the child so treatment could be started immediately
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Adorable 'graduation' for 22-week premature twins who'd 10% chance of surviving
Kimyah and DJ were born suddenly last October and were so small they could each fit into the palm of their mother's hands and even the tiniest nappies available were too big for them
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'Hubby died as I was pregnant with miracle baby, I’ll always have piece of him'
A woman whose husband died suddenly when she was six weeks pregnant, and then almost died herself while giving birth, says miracle daughter is 'just like her dad'.
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Woman told she may never have children again gives birth to miracle triplets
Kimberly Robb was diagnosed with a medical condition that required a hysterectomy but was left 'numb' with shock after soon discovering she was pregnant with three babies
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Boxer's girlfriend who found out she was pregnant days after his death has baby
Boxing champion Cam Shaw died in a tragic snorkelling incident at the Great Barrier Reef in October with girlfriend Ellyn Rungay discovering she was pregnant short after
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Mum born with two vaginas, wombs and cervixes welcomes 'miracle' first baby
A woman born with a rare condition that means she has two vaginas, two uteruses, and two cervixes has expressed her joy after welcoming her 'miracle' baby to the world
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Couple who fell pregnant at same time welcomed 'twiblings' born 12 days apart
Valerie Thourin and wife Renee endured years of heartbreak - including four miscarriages - when they first tried to start their family, but are now celebrating double delight
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'My husband's been dead for almost three years – now I'm having his baby'
Sian Goodsell said "it is nice to have a piece of him here," paying tribute to husband Jason, who died, aged 30, following a journey with aggressive bowel and liver cancer
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'Premature baby's brain is affected by what their parents do for a living'
Miriam Stoppard shares research from Edinburgh University that reveals social inequalities play a massive role in the brain health of early babies, and how support should be targeted to help these children thrive
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Woman who gave birth while in coma finally wakes to meet her baby for first time
California influencer Jackie Miller James suffered a brain aneurysm while pregnant on June 6. She has now woken from a coma to meet her baby for the first time, her family has said
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'Still questioning our pro-choices, after mum who took abortion pill is jailed'
The shocking case of the mother sentenced to 28 months in prison after taking abortion pills after the legal limit has thrown up more debate over this complicated and confusing issue, and left Polly Hudson wondering what it is to be truly pro-choice
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'My baby had life-changing surgery in the womb after terrifying diagnosis'
Sarah Copeland and partner Christian, from Essex, were devastated to learn their unborn baby had spina bifida and could be born paralysed - but pioneering foetal surgery now means she'll be able to live a regular life
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Incredible images of tiny 'miracle' twin boys who battled to survive from birth
Toni Lacey has called her twin boys "miracles", having had them after suffering a miscarriage - they survived despite being born at just 25 weeks, weighing less than a bag of sugar
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Mum, 26, brings home extremely rare miracle quintuplets after months in hospital
The mum from Purvis, Mississippi, had braced herself to spend her first Mother's Day in hospital months after giving birth to a boy and four girls. Quintuplets are extremely rare and can pose serious health problems for the mum and children alike
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Mum whose two children were killed by drunk driver gives birth to miracle baby
Rhiannon Lucas believes her baby daughter, Summer-Gracie, is a “gift” sent from the heavens by her lost children whom were killed by a drink driver on the M4 in south Wales
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