A look back at the top stories continues: A FIRST-TIME mum who was told her baby would not survive her pregnancy gave birth to her ‘little miracle’ - 16 weeks after her waters broke (October 14, ‘Baby Mia is little miracle’). Nadia Wainwright, from St Asaph, suffered from pre-term premature rupture of the membranes which broke her waters at 20 weeks. The 23-year-old sought support from the Little Heartbeats charity during “very dark days,” deciding: “As long as there is a heartbeat I’m fighting for my little girl.” Nadia’s membrane resealed but continued to leak. She contracted E. coli, strep A and had early-onset sepsis at 32 weeks when doctors decided to carry out an emergency C-section, which was successful.
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Ten more deaths have been confirmed among coronavirus patients at Northants two main hospitals
The official numbers of coronavirus deaths in Northamptonshire s hospitals rose by another ten today.
NHS England revealed eight previously unrecorded deaths among Covid-19 patients at Northampton General Hospital between Saturday and Sunday.
Two more have died at Kettering General Hospital in the last two days.
The sad news broke less than an hour before Health Secretary Matt Hancock was due to make an announcement on the Covid tier system following an acceleration in new positive tests.
Northamptonshire saw its highest daily and weekly totals of positive Covid-19 tests since the pandemic began in March with nearly 400 cases in the 24 hours up to 4pm on Monday and close to 1,800 in the previous seven days.
The empty chair at our table this Christmas
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