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| MY BABIES HAVE BEEN SO BIG THEY HAVE CRIPPLED ME. |
| I couldn’t believe it as the doctors put my newborn daughter on the scales. They gasped in shock - ‘she weighs 12 Ib’s.’ said one doctor.
Surely I couldn’t have just given birth to a 12Ib baby - but there it was, the needle on the scales proved it.
Ruby was just the latest in a long line - my babies were just getting heavier. First to arrive had been Ryan, now six, at 7Ib6, then Jack at 9Ib9, then Alex at 10Ib9, followed by Ruby at 12Ibs.
But now there was something more serious. My babies were actually crippling me. I was pregnant again - and this time the doctors were predicting that this baby is going to be even heavier than the last.
The pain had started when I was pregnant with Jack - then it got worse with Alex and Ruby’s pregnancies. The babies were so heavier it was causing too much pressure on my pelvis. Now with this pregnancy, I’m actually on crutches to help me walk as I’m just crippled. I can’t believe that my babies are doing this to me. ( davies ) |
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| I HAVE NEVER SEEN MY HUBBY. BLIND COUPLE WED. |
| I liked the sound of Bob Chabotte from the moment I read about him in the newspaper.
Bob was a keen mechanic and the article in our local paper said that he was desperate to find another job as he loved his work.
Thats what I liked about him - determination and a will to succeed. Because Bob was blind. He’d had a terrible motorbike accident at the age of 26, which had robbed him of his sight.
Anyone else might have been put off by the fact that Bob was blind - but not me. It only made me keener to meet him. Because I was blind too, from birth. ( robbins ) |
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| A SCRATCH COULD KILL MY DAUGHTER. |
| AS I watched my daughter Sophie fighting for life on a life support machine, I wondered how much more her little body could take.
‘This is it mum, isn’t it,’ whispered my son Jason as we watched her tiny chest go up and down on the machine.
And I thought it was - that this was the moment when I was going to lose my little girl. ( perren) |
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| MUM PUTS ON 7 STONE IN PREGNANCY - WITH A TUMOUR AND A BABY. |
| WHEN Emily Barton fell pregnant, she was surprised at how quickly her bump began to grow.
People stopped her in the street and asked her if she was carrying triplets as her baby bump was so huge.
She put on a staggering SEVEN stone during her pregnancy - thanks to a massive EIGHTEEN pint fluid filled cyst that was wrapping itself around her baby.
The cyst grew so big that it was lifethreatening to baby Sam, so doctors carried out an emergency caesarian to deliver both her baby and the cyst. |
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| THE MATCHSTICK MAN. |
| YOU could say that Brian Croucher has too much time on his hands.
His latest creation made entirely out of matchsticks has been a rocking chair, to while away the hours at his home in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.
It joins a long list in matchstick creations that has taken him nearly a MILLION matches. |
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| TWIN FIVE TIMES BIGGER THAN TINY TWIN. |
| WHEN Jake and Tom Armstrong were born, no-one could believe they were identical twins.
Amazingly Jake was nearly FIVE times bigger than his identical brother Tom. Jake weighed 5Ib2, whilst Tom just weighed a tiny 1Ib 5.
The twins had different placentas feeding them in their mothers womb, but Toms’ wasn’t functioning properly.
Doctors told his devastated parents than he wouldn’t even survive until the birth. |
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| TRAIN HORROR GIRL WALKS DOWN AISLE AS BRIDE. |
| AS I walked down the aisle towards my fiance Anthony Ruck it was something that I never thought I’d be able to do.
As I lay in hospital with my right leg gone after being hit by a train, it just seemed impossible that life would ever be the same again. ( ottoway , amputation )
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| MY DAUGHTER DANCES WITH JUST HALF A LEG. |
| AS Heather Mills twists and spins during her impressive dance routines on the American show Dancing With Stars, little Devon Taverner stis and watches her in awe.
For Devon was born with one normal leg, and one just half the size, in a rare condition that was only spotted when she was born.
Now in a desperate bid to be a dancer, just like both her mum Joanna and inspirational Heather, Devon’s family are saving up for a special leg that will allow her to dance properly too. |
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| GIRL BEATS MENINIGITIS 7 TIMES AS UK RECORD. |
| When Hannah Laffoley was struck down with the killer brain bug meninigitis, her family were worried about her getting it again.
But the doctors were reassuring and told her worried mother that Hannah would have more chance of being struck by lightening twice than getting the bug again.
But Hannah went onto to defy the doctors predictions, by not only getting it again - but another SIX times over an incredible 14 years.
She has set a UK record to become the only person in the UK to ever have suffered meninigits seven times. |
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| GIRL SETS UK RECORD BY HAVING FOUR ORGAN TRANSPLANTS - INC KIDNEY FROM DAD |
| WHEN Alison John needed a lifesaving kidney transplant, doctors warned her that she may not survive.
She had already received three transplanted organs in two separate transplant operations - receiving a new liver, heart and lungs.
But now Miss John, 28, has received a kidney from her father David - setting a UK record by having a four organ transplant all with different organs.
She has now made a full recovery after the operation at Christmas, and she is back studying to be a medic.
Miss John, who lives in Cardiff with partner Nathan Angell, 26, a steel fabricator, said: ‘I’ve now had four transplants, and Im the first person in the UK to have this many.
‘The doctors had written me off - but I’m still here. I feel very lucky to have had so many chances at life.’ |
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