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(Right to Life UK<\/a>) Born a week before the abortion limit and weighing only a pound, baby Chay is now nine months old and over ten times heavier than when he was born.<\/p>\n

Baby Chay was born in Hillingdon Hospital in London in June 2021 to mum Megan Mcgee, 19, and dad, Bradley Jefferys, 22. Because of his premature birth, baby Chay was very unwell and had to spend 280 days in hospital. During that time, his parents twice defied doctors\u2019 advice to turn off their son\u2019s life support.<\/p>\n

Mum Megan\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that her pregnancy was going smoothly so it came as a real shock that he was born prematurely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a normal pregnancy apart from a tooth infection, I never expected to give birth prematurely\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in such agony and being given all sorts of antibiotics \u2013 I can\u2019t think of another reason that he would have been born so early. The doctors agree with me that it was probably the antibiotics that triggered my early labour\u201d.<\/p>\n

Megan was relaxing at her mum\u2019s house when she suddenly started to go into labour at just 23 weeks, and she was rushed to hospital where she gave birth within hours.<\/p>\n

Chay was born still inside his amniotic sack and had to be resuscitated by medics.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0\u2018Not hopeless\u2019: Global map shows hospitals confirmed to have saved 22-week preemies<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Megan\u00a0said<\/a>: \u201cWhen he was born, he didn\u2019t cry as he wasn\u2019t breathing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrible not knowing what was going on but a really lovely nurse took a little video of them working on him, so I had an idea of what was happening\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a quick glimpse of him after he started breathing but he was rushed off so quickly\u201d.<\/p>\n

When Chay was just three days old, doctors confirmed he had suffered grade four brain bleeds on both sides of his brain along with damage to the white matter and cerebellum.<\/p>\n

At three weeks, his kidneys began to fail, and doctors advised the family to turn his life-support machines off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said no right away, he had fought so hard I wasn\u2019t going to give up on him\u201d, Megan\u00a0says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey kept suggesting it, but he just kept getting bigger and better and so eventually they stopped asking\u201d.<\/p>\n

Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: \u201cAbortion is legal up until 24 weeks in England and Wales and up to birth if the baby is disabled. But baby Chay and many others are born and survive before 24 weeks. Wonderful stories like this highlight not only that doctors make mistakes, but also that the abortion limit is now past the point of viability\u201d.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published<\/a> at Right to Life UK and is reprinted here with permission.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Right to Life UK) Born a week before the abortion limit and weighing only a pound, baby Chay is now nine months old and over ten times heavier than when he was born. Baby Chay was born in Hillingdon Hospital in London in June 2021 to mum Megan Mcgee, 19, and dad, Bradley Jefferys, 22. 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