Mother knows best: Amazing stories of mums' intuition

<p> Daniella Jackson was advised to abort her baby at five months when doctors <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/05/15/mum-to-be-refuses-lung-cancer-operation-to-save-unborn-baby/" target="_blank">found a cancerous tumour growing in her lung</a>. Doctors refused to operate while she was pregnant, and advised her to terminate her pregnancy to save her own life. But abortion was never an option for brave Daniella, and she was determined to wait until she gave birth to start treatment. Her daughter, Rennae was born four weeks prematurely, but fit and healthy, weighing 6lb, 3oz. A month later, the new mum underwent a four hour operation to cut out the tumour and remove half of her lung. She is now on her way to full recovery.&nbsp;</p>

<p> Mum-to-be Zoila Leiva was diagnosed with breast cancer&nbsp;when she was four and a half months pregnant with&nbsp;twins. <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/02/13/mum-expecting-twins-refused-to-consider-abortion-after-being-told-she-had-breast-cancer-zoila-leiva/" target="_blank">She refused an abortion</a> and went on to have two healthy boys, Julian and Joel. She had four rounds of chemotherapy over 12 weeks, and by the time she was ready to give birth at the recommended 32 weeks,&nbsp;the tumour had shrunk to almost nothing.</p>

<p> A doctor told Carrie Chilvers, 28, from Colchester, there was only a one in five chance that her baby would survive when she had her three-month scan&nbsp;at Colchester General Hospital, Essex. She was told even if her baby did survive, he or she would have Down's syndrome, Turner's syndrome or a chromosome deficiency. Carrie refused to give up on her unborn child but had to endure five weeks of anxiety as she refused to have an immediate termination without a second opinion.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/07/13/mum-of-healthy-girl-was-advised-to-abort-her-baby-three-times-after-scan-results-misread/" target="_blank">She was then told the doctor had misread her scan</a>&nbsp;and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Elizabeth, in January. The hospital dismissed the clinician who misread the scan.</p>

<p> Stephanie Papworth was just 12 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/tag/breast+cancer/" target="_blank">breast cancer</a>. Doctors <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/pregnancy-and-birth/the-miracle-baby-who-survived-six-months-of-chemotherapy-in-his-mother-womb-after-she-refused-abortion/" target="_blank">offered to terminate the baby </a>as they didn't think he would be able to survive the aggressive treatment. But Stephanie was determined to give her baby a fighting chance - and refused the termination. Baby Gabriel was born healthy and Stephanie has now been given the all-clear following a year of treatment.&nbsp;</p>

<p> </p> <p> Mum Lyndsey Crowder had already lost three babies when she fell pregnant with her daughter, Sidney Rose. Went she was told she had <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/08/02/cancer-battle-mum-refused-to-abort-her-unborn-child/" target="_blank">Hodgkin's Lymphoma when she was in the early stages of her pregnancy</a>, doctors advised a termination. But the brave mum refused to give up on her daughter, and went through eight rounds of chemotherapy before Sidney Rose was safely delivered by Caesarean at 34 weeks. Lyndsey has now been in remission for 30 months and Sidney Rose is everything a parent could wish for.</p>

<p> When her daughter Isabel was born with a <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/07/15/doctors-insisted-my-baby-had-a-birthmark-but-it-was-a-tumour/" target="_blank">purple mark on the side of her face</a>, Yvonne Bull was told it was simply a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/b/birthmarks" target="_blank">strawberry birth mark</a>&nbsp;and 'nothing to worry' about. But the mark - originally the size of a golf ball on the left hand side of Isabel's face - trebled in size within a month and covered her left ear. As the mark began to grow and bleed, Yvonne, a nurse herself and mother-of-four, repeatedly took Isabel back to hospital but doctors only prescribed medication to shrink birthmarks. After demanding more tests, Yvonne and her partner Anthony were told Isabel had am extremely rare&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sarcoma.org.uk/" target="_blank">sarcoma tumour</a>&nbsp;and the cancer had spread to her bone marrow. She went through months of chemotherapy and is now on the road to recovery, all thanks to her mum and dad.&nbsp;</p>

<p> Baby Logan was <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/07/11/baby-baptised-at-birth-and-given-hours-to-live-makes-miracle-recovery/" target="_blank">baptised at birth</a> after doctors gave her zero chance of survival at birth. Her mum and dad, Kellie and Callum, refused to give up on their little girl, and four months on, Logan has confounded medical opinion and her parents believe she will live a normal life.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>