WHEN Jacob McMahon was born at 23 weeks at Bradford Royal Infirmary he was the most premature baby to be born in the city and the UK’s most premature twin to survive in the UK.
Yesterday he was back with proud mum Sara Fisher, 28, of Tong, to see the hospital’s new neo-natal department and say thank you to the staff who helped save him.
One of those who remembered him from his five-month stay in the unit in 2011 battling for his tiny life was staff nurse Jane Pennett.
Jacob’s mum was only 16 weeks into her pregnancy when her waters broke. Sadly her twin daughter Emie, who was born at 21 weeks and six days did not live but Jacob was born eight days later and whisked away to a ventilator.
“It was a tight fit in between incubators when we were last here with just room for a chair squeezed in. The new unit has so much space, it’s wonderful,” said Miss Fisher.
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