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Baby born at 23 weeks is thriving: Tiny Lucas given just one-in-four chance of survival
- Published_at:2013-08-13
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:videomailonline
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- description: Lucas Georgiou weighed just 1lb 8oz when he was born on April 29 But doctors have called him 'real-life miracle' after he clung to life Parents Tracy and Costa Georgiou are now allowed to take him home His hand was so tiny that he could barely hold his mother's little finger. Yet somehow premature baby Lucas Georgiou, pictured here at one week old in intensive care, clung to life. He had been born at 23 weeks and weighed just 1lb 8oz. Doctors gave him only a one in four chance of survival. Yesterday, however, four months after his birth and four days before his due date, his parents Tracy and Costa Georgiou were allowed to take him home for the first time. 'The doctors say Lucas is a real-life miracle,' said Mrs Georgiou. 'We have watched him grow in his incubator, when it should have been happening in my womb. Now I'm ecstatic to be taking him home. Winning the lottery couldn't top how we feel now.' Their ordeal began on April 29 when Mrs Georgiou, 31, a carer who has two older children, began bleeding heavily while at her cousin's.
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