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Tiny premature baby born so small she could wear her dad’s wedding ring as a bracelet

An extremely premature baby was born so small that she could wear her dad’s wedding ring as a bracelet is now six years old and can slip it on her finger.

Poppy Cooke was born at 25 weeks in November 2014, just one week after the legal abortion limit in the UK. She was so frail and born with numerous medical issues that she had to spend the first 107 days of her life in three different hospitals before she could go home with her parents, Matt and Lucy Cooke.

“We couldn’t stroke her in case that broke her skin”.

Mum Lucy, 33, said: “Poppy was so tiny when she was born. Seeing my husband’s ring on her wrist was crazy. It showed just how little she was. Now she can put it on her finger and thumb”.

Back in 2014, Lucy had to be rushed to Worthington Hospital in West Sussex when she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia. This caused her blood pressure to rise to dangerous levels and it meant that her baby had to be removed. She was only 25 weeks pregnant.

“I was told that my baby would be coming on the weekend”, Lucy said. “I had no idea it would happen so fast – we hadn’t even decided on a name as we’d only just found out the gender”.

Lucy had to be taken to Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, to give birth because her local hospital was not equipped to look after such a premature baby.

“She’s just incredible and amazes me every day”.

After an emergency caesarean section, Lucy said: “I didn’t get to see Poppy for 10 hours. We didn’t even get to cuddle her until she was 10 days old as her skin was too fragile”.

Poppy was born with a hole in her heart and suffered a cyst on her brain at two weeks old. She then had to have five blood transfusions and suffered from lung disease and numerous setbacks. Despite all this, after over 100 days in hospital, she went home on 7 March 2015, five days after her original due date. Poppy has now turned six and she is thriving.

“It feels out of this world for us that she is doing so well”, Lucy said. Poppy has gone from strength to strength ever since and is reaching milestones just like any other girl her age.

Poppy, now six, said: “I can’t believe that I was so small as a baby and now I am so tall”.

Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: “We are so glad to hear that Poppy is doing so well all these years on, and are once again astounded at the power of modern medicine. This story, and countless like it, shows again and again the archaic and unscientific nature of the current abortion law and one of its main defending arguments – viability outside the womb. It’s about time the law is brought into the 21st century and in line with modern science”.

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Dear reader,

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.

But that is not what happened.

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.

To cover this gap and ensure we can effectively defeat these three major threats in the coming months, we are aiming to raise at least £199,250 by midnight this Sunday (17 May 2026).

We are, therefore, appealing to you to please give as generously as you can.

Every donation, large or small, will make a crucial difference in saving the lives of the unborn and many others. Plus, if you are a UK taxpayer, £1 becomes £1.25 with Gift Aid at no extra cost to you.

By stopping these threats, YOU can save lives during this new Parliamentary session.

Will you donate now to help protect vulnerable lives from these three major threats?

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