A baby in England has defied the odds despite arriving 17 weeks early and after his parents twice refused doctors’ advice of turning off his life support.
Little Chay Jefferys weighed just 1 pound when he was born at 23 weeks on June 2, 2021, and spent nine months fighting for his life and battling chronic lung disease.
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His mother, Megan Mcgee, 19, had never expected that she’d give birth to a premature baby. Her pregnancy was going normal apart from her tooth infection.
”I was in such agony and being given all sorts of antibiotics—I can’t think of another reason that he would have been born so early,” Megan, a full-time mom, said. “The doctors agree with me that it was probably the antibiotics that triggered my early labor.”
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