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08/11/2007 7:00 PM
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"He was ten days late, so I knew he would be a bit bigger, but certainly not the size he was. It wasn't until he started coming that I knew something was amiss."
Miss Ellerton was taken to University of Hartlepool Hospital when she started having twinges earlier this week. Nurses broke her waters but the birth quickly became complicated because of the size of the youngster. His shoulder became lodged behind the mother's pelvic bone and it took four midwives to set him free.
"It all happened so fast but they said it was an emergency and only afterwards did I realise how much danger we were both in," said the mother, who lost three litres of blood during labour. "If they had known the size they would have given me a Caesarean.
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