A newborn baby who was 12 weeks premature helped to save her mum’s life as doctors discovered a cancerous tumour.
Harriet Elsdon, 32, was told by medics that it “might have been too late” if she had given birth on her planned due date.
After a scan, doctors found that a cyst on her right ovary – which had been initially detected at her 20-week scan back – was growing. Now, awaiting her last chemotherapy session, she is looking forward to ending her treatment – just in time for Christmas.Harriet, from Brentwood, Essex, said: ‘I feel like I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.‘If Nicholas and I hadn’t been in the hospital visiting Maddison I don’t think I would have bothered being medically checked.‘I was too busy worrying about my newborn to worry about myself – it was like she knew she had to come early to save my life.
Within 20 minutes of being in the hospital, Maddison was born naturally, weighing 2lbs 5oz – despite her due date not being until October.‘It was such a whirlwind experience, and she was so tiny when she was born.After three days in the hospital, the couple returned home to their two boys, Lincoln, four and Logan, two.
‘The doctors said it was my choice to have chemo or just relied on regular CT scans, but I immediately knew I was going to have chemo because I had to stay alive for my children.
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