![]() ![]() “Her waters had broken three weeks before on Christmas Eve, so Gill spent two weeks in hospital so the baby could be monitored. "Then she went into labour 13 weeks early. “Gill suffers with anxiety, so my role as dad was to keep positive, but I used to cry on my own. "We had hospital visits four times a week to have checks on Gill’s blood pressure and kidneys because one works at 35%, so the baby wasn’t getting as much protein as it needed. ![]() “We got past the 12 weeks stage but it was a difficult pregnancy. "I was so excited, but at the back of my mind I thought we could lose her. ![]() "But the day after we’d agreed not to try for more children we conceived Ada, so it was a big surprise. “After one of them was lost we had to wait a week to have an operation to get it out. “The aftermath of losing a baby was really difficult,” James recalls. The couple tried to conceive again for several years – suffering two early miscarriages. It was only when we got her home it sank in that everyone was all right.”Įlsie has had no lasting complications from being born early, aside from a bit of asthma.īut when it came to having their second child, things were very different. “She and Gill were in hospital for about a week and a half, as Gill had problems with pre-eclampsia. "Elsie was 4lbs 3oz and when I saw her I thought she was the smallest baby I’d ever seen. Boris Johnson trousered £43,000 for speech announcing he'll back No Deal Brexit ![]()
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