Little Jamie defies the odds

LITTLE Jamie Boyce celebrates his first birthday next week, after his mother once feared she would lose him in her womb.

Mum Amy Haughey, 23, was told by medics that when her waters broke at 19 weeks that Jamie would probably be born within hours without hope of living.

He defied the odds and was born by emergency caesarean section at 27 weeks, long before most babies come into the world.

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