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Doctors in the United Kingdom predicted she would have “no quality of life” — but little Sussie\u00a0Bea Patrick, who was born weighing just one pound and one ounce at 22 weeks and four days gestation, is now heading home from the hospital in time for her first Christmas.<\/p>\n

Sussie’s parents, Jodie Marrin and Lee Patrick, raced to the hospital on June 27, 2018, when Marrin began feeling ill. She was just over halfway through the pregnancy and was diagnosed with sepsis.<\/p>\n

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Baby Sussie was born premature at about the size of a candy bar.<\/p><\/div>\n

“She was feeling unwell for about 24 hours,” Patrick told ECHO. “When it got to 11:30 pm on June 27 I said, ‘We’re going\u00a0to the hospital. This isn’t right.’ She was throwing up. Within 15 minutes she was giving birth in the back of the taxi to the hospital.”<\/p>\n

Doctors provided no hope, telling the couple to prepare to say their goodbyes to their baby girl. Just ten minutes after arriving at the hospital, Marrin gave birth.<\/p>\n

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A tiny Susie who was born premature at just 22 weeks and four days gestation<\/p><\/div>\n

“The said she wouldn’t be breathing for long and might not look like we expected,” Patrick told The Mirror<\/a>. “They said they would let us be together as a family. She came out and gave a little whimper so they started working on her.”<\/p>\n

Sussie\u00a0was so small she was about the size of a chocolate bar and doctors didn’t plan on trying to save her life. They thought “it wasn’t worth” treating her because “she wouldn’t have a quality of life.” But her parents fought for her, saying, “that’s something that we will have\u00a0to deal with but if she’s fighting we have to fight.”<\/p>\n

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Baby Sussie, who was born premature at just 22 weeks and 4 days gestation, is pictured with her father Lee Patrick.<\/p><\/div>\n

Little Sussie\u00a0proved to be a big fighter and after\u00a0five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, Merseyside, she is finally going home with her parents.\u00a0 Sussie is still on oxygen but her father calls her his “little miracle” and says she is absolutely “perfect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doctors in the United Kingdom predicted she would have “no quality of life” — but little Sussie\u00a0Bea Patrick, who was born weighing just one pound and one ounce at 22 weeks and four days gestation, is now heading home from the hospital in time for her first Christmas. 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