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First Birthday Party To Help Lifesaving Neonatal Unit

Baby Joey Patterson's parents are asking for a very special first birthday gift for him on October 24.

The toddler's family are holding a special birthday party to raise funds for the the hospital neonatal units that saved his life when he was born 10 weeks premature.

Mum Beth Patterson from Great Sankey in Cheshire has organised a charity raffle at the Lymm Hotel in aid of the Warrington Hospital and The Newborn Appeal at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, and is looking for prize donations.

Staff nurse Beth recalled that doctors had little optimism for Joey's survival when he was born.

But she could not bring herself give up hope: “When my waters broke at 18 weeks doctors told me I had miscarried,” she sad. “I was offered a termination but we couldn’t do that when he had a heartbeat.”

Beth and her husband Ian went home with their other son Lucas to let ‘nature take its course’ after doctor's said that Joey’s lungs had little chance of developing outside the womb.

But the tiny baby survived against all the odds. Beth said: “The worst time was those 12 weeks when I could have gone into labour at any point.

“Joey was born at Warrington before being transferred to Liverpool for three weeks. He weighed 2lb 2oz when he was born and was given oxygen for seven months.

“But now he’s doing everything that he should do for his age and even crawling around earlier than his big brother did. He’s a regular little miracle to us.”

Donations can be offered through the website justgiving.com/bethan-patterson.

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