Article: 12-week premature baby who had a heart bypass at just FIVE weeks old; EXCLUSIVE AND THISWAS THE ACTUAL SIZE OF HIS HEART.(News)

Byline: By VANESSA ALLEN

IT WAS the harrowing moment five-week-old Owen Smith was taken for a life-saving heart bypass - but mum Stephanie could not bear to let him out of her arms.

Stephanie and husband Alan had been warned by doctors that the complex operation to remove a 2cm blood clot had never been carried out on such a young baby before - and could even kill him.

Yet it was the only chance of saving tiny Owen who was born nearly three months early, weighed just 1lb 8oz and had a heart the size of a 10p coin.

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