Baby born with meningitis defies doctors after her terrified parents were told she 'may not survive the weekend'

Samantha Allsop, 29, from Birmingham, was told her baby had a heart defect at her 23 week scan but doctors wouldn't know the severity until she was born. 


Then, at 36 weeks a scan showed baby Tiger-Jade's heart rate was plummeting and so she was delivered by emergency Caesarean. Unable to breathe, doctors said she had viral meningitis and may not survive the weekend. But despite a myriad of other health complications (inset, in hospital) including 15 holes in her heart and club feet, Tiger-Jade survived and is now a happy six-month-old (left and right). Her mother Samantha said: 'She's here, and that's all that matters.'