A miracle baby born ten weeks premature who needed life-saving surgery when he was just one day old has spent his first Christmas at home with his delighted parents.
Archie Burns weighed a tiny 2lbs 12oz when his mum Emma Bailey gave birth to him on August 17 - and had to spend the next ten weeks in hospital.
The little fighter was rushed to theatre the day after he was born when doctors discovered his oesophagus was not connected to his stomach as they tried to insert a feeding tube.
Surgeons at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), West Yorks., connected his oesophagus to his stomach as it should have been, but he later needed two more operations to widen his windpipe.
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