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Baby boy born at only 31 weeks goes viral in heartwarming video

A baby boy who was born prematurely days before Christmas at just 31 weeks gestation is now “healthy and doing great” at seven months old.

Alice Varley, from Dublin, had only been pregnant for 31 weeks when baby Liam was born. Alice said she “had a low-risk pregnancy” until, during a routine midwife appointment in December, she found out her baby was measuring smaller than he should have been. 

Earlier in the month, Alice had been experiencing migraines, extreme fatigue, and pain in her ribs, but she had visited maternity triage several times but no alarm bells had been raised.. Alice said that her gut was telling her something was wrong, and it was soon discovered that she had pre-eclampsia, a condition that can cause serious complications during pregnancy. A consultant told Alice and her partner, Alex Beck, that their baby would need to be born very soon, otherwise he may not survive..

Alice had to stay in the hospital for two days before the birth, which helped her “mentally prepare” to give birth sooner than expected.  Fortunately, “Liam was a little fighter and his heartbeat stayed strong the entire time”,, and he was born tiny but in a stable condition, with his mum describing him as an “incredibly healthy preemie”. 

Mum couldn’t hold her baby until 36 hours after birth

Alice had to remain in the hospital’s high dependency unit because of her pre-eclampsia, so she was unable to be with her newborn baby for 36 hours. For the first day after giving birth, Alice could only see baby Liam in photographs and videos that her partner Alex had sent to her. 

“I was able to look at his incubator briefly in a wheelchair for 10 minutes after 24 hours, but I probably didn’t hold, touch or see him with his eyes open until 36 hours after his birth”, Alice said. 

A video of Alice and baby Liam, taken during the first time she got to hold him, has gone viral on TikTok, gaining over 2 million views. Alice said that “Baby Liam was asleep and as soon as I held him, he opened his eyes and looked straight at me”, describing the moment as “perfect”. Alice is now using her social media platform to share her story and raise awareness of the unusual symptoms of pre-eclampsia which she experienced. 

https://www.tiktok.com/@alicevarley/video/7526675576124411158

Now, seven months on, Alice says that every day with baby Liam is “wonderful”. 

“He is a cheeky, fun and chilled baby boy, he loves people and will give anyone a smile who gives him attention”, she said

Alice said that her experience was “Absolutely not how I expected to become parents but I wouldn’t change Liam or his story for the world”.

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “Baby Liam is certainly a little fighter, and it is great to see how strong he has become at seven months old. He, and babies like him, born so prematurely, are a constant reminder of the humanity of unborn children, and we hope his story encourages others to protect and support the lives of our most vulnerable children”. 

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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like you across the UK, the McArthur assisted suicide Bill in Scotland was defeated in March by 69 votes to 57.

Then, in April, the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill fell in the House of Lords.

Many commentators thought both Bills would become law.

If that had happened, governments in England, Scotland and Wales would now be preparing to roll out assisted suicide services.

Over the coming decades, this would have led to the deaths of many thousands of vulnerable people.

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Because supporters like you acted, those Bills were stopped.

Because of you, many vulnerable lives have been saved.

These were two very significant victories. But sadly, they are not the last battles we face this year.

The new Parliamentary session began on Wednesday. We now face three major threats.

  1. Attempts to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill and bypass the House of Lords

    The assisted suicide lobby, led by Dignity in Dying, a multi-million-pound pressure group, has made it clear that it is going to attempt to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill in the next parliamentary session.

    It then plans to use the Parliament Acts to bypass the House of Lords and force the Bill into law.

  2. Labour Government plans for a major expansion of abortion provision, including financial incentives for ‘lunch-hour’ abortions

    Under these plans, the Government would financially incentivise major abortion providers, BPAS and MSI Reproductive Choices, to provide ‘lunch-hour’ or ‘same-day’ abortions.

    ‘Lunch-hour’ abortion services are walk-in abortion services designed to fit into a woman’s lunch hour.

    Women facing an unplanned pregnancy need time, care and support, not a system that gives abortion clinics a financial incentive to rush them through consultations, scans and abortions on the same day.

    If these plans go ahead, many more lives are likely to be ended by abortion here in the UK.

  3. Extreme abortion up to birth proposals in Scotland

    In Scotland, plans are moving forward to introduce an extreme abortion up to birth law. This would go far beyond the abortion law change recently backed by the Lords for England and Wales.

    A review of abortion law in Scotland, commissioned by Humza Yousaf when he was Scottish First Minister, recommended that the Scottish Government scrap the current 24-week time limit – and abortion be available on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth.

    The final plans are expected to be brought forward as a Government Bill in the new Scottish Parliament, which begins this Thursday.

If these three major threats succeed, thousands of vulnerable lives will be lost.

We cannot allow this to happen.

We can only defeat these three major threats with your help.

We ran our biggest campaigns ever to help defeat the assisted suicide Bills at Westminster and in Scotland.

That work has made a serious dent in our limited resources.

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