Premature baby was so tiny doctors put her into a SANDWICH BAG to mimic her mother's womb

A baby born 15 weeks premature was so tiny doctors put her into a SANDWICH BAG to keep her warm and mimic her mother's womb.

Little Faith Findlay weighed just 1lbs 15oz when she was delivered by emergency c-section at 26 weeks on 13th September 2020 at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire - three months before her due date.

Doctors immediately bundled Faith into a see-through sandwich bag - which mimics the womb and aims to prevent her body temperature dropping.

Faith - who was lighter than half a bag of sugar and smaller than her mother's hand - was rushed to intensive care, where doctors told her parents they didn't know if she would make it or not.

Faith battled a hole in her heart and a brain lesion - a spot on the brain which could indicate brain damage- and had to stay in the neonatal intensive care unit for 79 days.

But miraculously, tiny Faith defied the odds and she is now at home and thriving - seven months on.

Mum Vanessa Findlay, 32, a waitress, from Catterick, North Yorkshire, said: "They put her in this little bag to keep her warm and to mimic my womb.

I was so shocked at how small she was.

Vanessa and her husband, Kurt, 32, a lance corporal, were overjoyed to have their little girl home after a traumatic pregnancy and nervous few months.

Mum-of-three Vanessa suffered hyperemesis gravidarum - a condition causing horrific constant vomiting and nausea - for most of the pregnancy and had to be on bed rest.