Echo2 Your Health: 'I Was Told I'd Never Have Children, Now I Have Two' ; at 24, Ellen Petts Was Told She Had Just a Week to Live When She Was Taken Ill with Leukaemia. She Tells Cathy Owen How She Defied Doctors to Pull Through and Get Pregnant Twice

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EVERY mother thinks their children are little miracles but Ellen Petts knows that her son and daughter really are.

When she was just 24, Ellen was diagnosed as having acute lymphoid leukaemia which had attacked 95 per cent of her cells and was told she only had a week to live.

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Echo2 Your Health: 'I Was Told I'd Never Have Children, Now I Have Two' ; at 24, Ellen Petts Was Told She Had Just a Week to Live When She Was Taken Ill with Leukaemia. She Tells Cathy Owen How She Defied Doctors to Pull Through and Get Pregnant Twice

She was warned that the life-saving treatment she needed would probably mean she could never have children.

But as her children, Yasmin, five, and Calum, two, spoil her on Mother's Day this Sunday, the reality of being a "medical miracle"...

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