The incredible journey of a very premature child who fell deeply ill during the pandemic
Taliesin Howells has gone through so much in his very short life
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Taliesin Howells was born three months prematurely weighing 2lbs 10z. He s pictured with his parents Rhys and Liz Howells (Image: Liz Howells)
For the first few weeks of his life, tiny newborn Taliesin Howells was kept alive entirely by machines.
The critically-ill baby, who was born three months early, had been diagnosed with life-threatening infections in his blood and bones and had suffered swelling so severe his fingers had turned white.
As well as needing 14 different pumps to provide him with the medicine, blood, and plasma he desperately needed, he was also on an oscillator which did all the breathing for him.