Article: Our son is a three million to one miracle; Surgeons stunned as mother and baby survive ectopic pregnancy.

Byline: REBECCA ENGLISH

SAM Hoey's parents regard their newborn son as a miracle - and doctors agree.

Only on the day he was born did they realise he had been an ectopic pregnancy, developing outside his mother's womb.

In virtually every such pregnancy, the foetus has to be aborted as it can cause the mother's fallopian tubes to burst, endangering her life.

But by a three million to one chance, Sam survived for eight months in Marina Hoey's abdominal cavity by feeding off a blood supply from her intestines - and was born 12 days ago weighing 5lb and in perfect health.

'It's an overused word these days, but Sam really is a ...

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