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Meet Amelie Perry, Britain’s youngest survivor of sepsis who amazed doctors with her miracle recovery

LITTLE Amelie Perry has become Britain’s youngest survivor of sepsis.

The tot was rushed to intensive care just hours after her birth when her body swelled to almost twice its normal size.

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Amelie Perry was rushed to intensive care just hours after her birthCredit: SWNS:South West News Service

But Amelie, who recently celebrated her first birthday, has amazed doctors with her recovery.

Mum Alaska-Lily Morrison, 19, said: “We are incredibly lucky Amelie pulled through. When she was born she wasn’t breathing. Her body was puffed up and she had a mottled rash.

“Doctors say it is incredible Amelie didn’t lose her arms and legs.

She recently celebrated her first birthday and has amazed doctors with her recoveryCredit: SWNS:South West News Service

“But to look at her now you’d never guess she’d ever been gravely ill. She is full of beans and always smiling.”

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Alaska-Lily and her fiancé, sous chef Callum Perry, 23, from Thurlby, Lincs, were overjoyed when Alaska-Lily found out she was pregnant.

Proud parents - Alaska-Lily and her fiancé, sous chef Callum Perry, 23, pictured with their childCredit: SWNS:South West News Service

She said: “In my early teens I suffered from anorexia. While I recovered, I never started my periods and doctors said I was unlikely to ever conceive. So we were thrilled.”

But the nightmare for the childhood sweethearts began when a routine test 36 weeks into the pregnancy was positive for Group B Streptococcus — an infection, which can be fatal if passed to a baby during delivery.

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Alaska-Lilly, a digital marketer, said: “Because of the Strep B, doctors said I would be given a shot of antibiotics during delivery.”

Alaska-Lily was given the injection which should have prevented her baby becoming ill, but when Amelie was born she was not breathing.

Her mum said: “Instead of a newborn baby’s cry, there was just silence. Callum and I felt so helpless.

Those few minutes while the doctors worked on her were the worst moment of our lives. We thought she’d died.

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