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Miracle baby put in sandwich bag to stay warm after premature birth

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Published October 22, 2015

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Pixie Griffiths-Grant weighed just a little over 1 pound and was no bigger than her mother’s hand when she was born three months premature, according to The Telegraph.

The miracle baby was delivered by emergency C-section at only 28 weeks. She was so tiny that doctors placed her in a sandwich bag to help keep her warm.

“It was so random that they had her in the Tesco bag,” said Pixie’s mother, 37-year-old Sharon Grant, referring to the British grocery chain. “It must have just been what the operating theater had at the time.”

Sharon, of Goonhavern, England — about 300 miles west of London — was told that her baby had stopped growing at 20 weeks.

“My placenta and umbilical cord weren’t feeding her properly,” she said.

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Pixie was so fragile that her mother wasn’t able to hold her for 18 days because “every time she was handled, she would lose weight.”

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