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12 in fight for life
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EDINBURGH: The baby of a 12-year-old girl who has become Scotland's youngest mother
is fighting for her life.
The baby stopped breathing moments after the schoolgirl - who reportedly smoked 20 cigarettes a day - gave birth
yesterday at hospital in Livingston, West Lothian.
The baby, who has a lung problem, was transferred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Her 34-year-old grandmother told a newspaper: "It was awful. My daughter was handed the baby and she gasped and
said 'Oh, Mum' because she was so proud and excited.
"But suddenly panic broke out because the baby's lips started going blue. We think there's fluid on her
lungs.
"My daughter is a mum now and there's a bond between her and her baby. She is so scared of losing the wee
one."
The grandmother, herself the mother of a baby boy, said doctors had told her the infant might have to remain in an
incubator for up to a fortnight.
"We're just praying. My daughter was almost crying when she asked doctors: 'Just save my baby - tell me
she's not going to die'. It broke my heart to hear my little girl talking about her little girl like
that."
The West Lothian girl, who has not been named, fell pregnant aged 11 after having sex with a 15-year-old on a drunken
night out with friends.
He has been charged with underage sex.
Her mother told last month how "proud" she was of her daughter becoming pregnant and keeping the
baby.
The new mother has quit school after a string of exclusions for fighting with fellow pupils.
It was reported she smoked 20 cigarettes a day and started drinking at age 10. Last month, she revealed there was a
possibility authorities would place her child in foster care and vowed to fight any such move.
"I've been told by social workers there's a chance the baby won't come home with me. I'm
willing to do whatever it takes to keep my baby. I don't know how I would cope if I lost it," she
said.
The 12-year-old is not Britain's youngest mother - that title has gone to a girl from Gloucestershire who got
pregnant at 11-1/2 and gave birth at 12 and three months.