What happens when your baby arrives 11 weeks too early?

A premature birth can be terrifying. The care of a pre-term baby is very different to that of a full-term baby, as one mother tells Áilín Quinlan

ENGLISH teacher Ashling Muldowney was enjoying a tranquil pregnancy — until things suddenly took a turn very much for the worse.

It was the end of January 2015, and the Cobh, Co Cork resident, by then comfortably into her 29th week, suddenly realised she was experiencing slight bleeding.