Mum of 'UK's smallest newborn' blasts trolls who said 'she doesn't even look like a baby'

dailystar.co.uk:

teen mum of a tiny girl born via emergency C-section after 25 weeks – weighing just 11oz – has blasted vile trolls who said her child "didn't even look like a baby" and "looks dead" as she battled for her life.

Tiny 325g Hannah Stibbles was born on December 30, 2021, and before delivering her, doctors warned mum Ellie Patton, then 17, and dad Brandon, 21, that their baby had "next-to-no chance of survival."Hannah, who is thought to be the smallest baby to survive in the UK, is now doing really well and is "a happy chunky bouncing baby girl," according to mum Ellie.

But Ellie, who's now 18, told the Daily Star that she can't help but think "all the time" about the abuse that three fellow mothers gave her child in a vile online group chat. "It was terrifying, we really thought that she wasn’t going to make it, then we found out about that group chat with the horrible girls talking nasty about Hannah when she was just born aswell, it really brought our spirits down."Ellie, who is from Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland, said that three fellow mothers created a group chat to say "loads of nasty things" about Hannah, before she was even a week old."The girls in a group chat were saying she doesn’t even look like a baby, she’s probably going to die doesn’t even look alive, loads of nasty things," she told the Star.

Ellie said she knows the women personally. "They're known around where I stay for being horrible, they're just the kind of people you want to stay away from."She added: "I think about it all the time, how they could ever say something like that about a helpless not well wee baby.