Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'I had no idea I was positive for deadly infection I could have passed my baby - until I got lucky moments before giving birth'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum-of-two had no idea she was carrying a deadly infection which could have been passed to her baby during birth until just moments before she went into labour.
Amy Winters went into hospital to give birth to her second child in May of 2023 after her waters broke early at 34 weeks. Amy was she going to have her baby weeks earlier than planned, but that turned out to be a potentially life-saving coincidence.
Amy happened to be in the Saint Mary's maternity unit at North Manchester General Hospital which is trialling a rapid bedside test to protect newborns from group B streptococcus (GBS) - a type of bacteria that can be passed onto babies during birth.
GBS is the most common cause of life-threatening infection in newborn babies in the UK. READ MORE: 'I wasn't told anything about life-threatening illness until my newborn nearly died from it' Approximately one in four pregnant women in the UK carry GBS, often without realising it, and there is a 50 per cent chance that the baby will be exposed to GBS during birth.
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