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Tiny tot born 16 weeks premature reaches 10 week milestone
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BORN 16 weeks premature Emily Cressey clung to life, her tiny hand gripping her mothers as she fought to survive, as Daily Mail reported.
The fragile newborn is one of the youngest baby's to have been born in Scotland, surviving despite being born at 24 weeks - the legal threshold for an abortion, according the report.
But today the 10-week-old has reached another milestone, defying the medical odds.
Emily, known as the 'little miracle', has been fed with a bottle by her mother Claire Cressey for the first time, after her family prayed she would pull through, the report said.
Ms Cressey, 34, shared the moment she and her family feared might never come on social media.
She said: 'It was the most beautiful moment, most mothers take that for granted, even get fed-up with doing it, not me.
'To see her take a bottle was wonderful, I'm so grateful for this time, so precious, when you fight to keep your baby alive for so long you often overlook these simple kind of moments, just like we did her jabs.
'To hold Emily with a bottle, her tubes seemed to vanish and the moment became real, gazing down at my baby watching her feed felt so right and I'm so thankful at the same time.'
Emily was born weighing little more than half-a-bag of sugar.
A medical team from Edinburgh transported Ms Cressey from her home in Coldstream to ensure experts were on hand to give Emily the help necessary to survive beyond birth.
She fought to stay alive, first on a ventilator, then by using a continuous positive airway pressure machine, necessary to help her lungs develop until they could function on their own.
Her weight has increased from just 0.53kg to a steady 1.79kg with every other feed now being from the bottle.
Father Alan Coultas, and siblings Caitlin, eight, Millie, four, and Brooke, 17 months, marked her weekly milestone with their usual cake and candles.
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