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Mum urges you to help and support bigger babies just like ones born premature

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IT is often assumed that only premature babies need care in special neonatal units.

But bigger babies also suffer life- threatening complications and need urgent help, as Gemma Batchelor found out in May 2016 when giving birth.

Gemma is supporting The Sun's collaboration with Bliss to raise awareness of all babies in need
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Gemma is supporting The Sun's collaboration with Bliss to raise awareness of all babies in needCredit: Damien McFadden - The Sun

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Her son Samuel, now two, weighed 11lb 11oz and was starved of oxygen when he got stuck for nine minutes.

As a result, he arrived not breathing and without a heartbeat and had to spend three weeks at Bedford Hospital’s neonatal unit.

Gemma, 37, from Flitwick, Beds, said: “His head came out but the rest of him wouldn’t. The doctors tried everything, but nothing was working.

The complicated birth meant Samuel was deprived of oxygen but doctors were on hand to help
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The complicated birth meant Samuel was deprived of oxygen but doctors were on hand to helpCredit: Damien McFadden - The Sun
Gemma wants our readers to know that not only premature babies need your help, birth can be complicated for bigger babies too
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Gemma wants our readers to know that not only premature babies need your help, birth can be complicated for bigger babies tooCredit: Damien McFadden - The Sun
Samuel walking about with his older sisters Jasmine, 15 and Violet, 8
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 Samuel walking about with his older sisters Jasmine, 15 and Violet, 8Credit: Damien McFadden - The Sun
The family are now excited to be supporting the Light up for Christmas campaign to help other parents
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The family are now excited to be supporting the Light up for Christmas campaign to help other parentsCredit: Damien McFadden - The Sun

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By purchasing this special 13cm bear called Scuby who's the same size as a premature baby, you help fund brilliant charity Bliss
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By purchasing this special 13cm bear called Scuby who's the same size as a premature baby, you help fund brilliant charity BlissCredit: Wilfried Haubenberger - The Sun

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“I was terrified, he’d been starved of oxygen for the whole time he was stuck. He was taken away for CPR. Samuel wasn’t breathing and he had no heartbeat. It took around five minutes to get his heart going, then he was incubated to help him breathe.”

Mum-of-three Gemma and her husband Michael, 38, are now supporting The Sun’s Light Up Christmas appeal, which aims to raise money for Bliss, the UK’s leading charity for sick and premature babies.

Gemma said: “Many families need the help of neonatal units. Samuel was nearly full-term when he was born, but he was very poorly. Bliss were great. They are a huge support.”

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