A MUM has told of her devastation after her tiny baby was born alive after an abortion at 18 weeks - and lived for ten hours. Loran Denison, 27, was pregnant with her fourth child, when a test at 15 weeks revealed he had Edwards' syndrome. It's a rare but very serious condition and most babies with Edwards' syndrome will die before or shortly after being born, or at a young age. Loran and partner Scott Watson, 35, made the agonising decision to have a medical abortion after being told he was unlikely to be born alive, she said. She took a tablet and returned to hospital to be induced at 18 weeks and four days - but was astonished when her son was born breathing and alive.