LITTLE miracle Jasmine Roberts amazed doctors when she was born in perfect health despite being three months premature and weighing just 1lb 4 1/2 oz.

When mum-to-be Elizabeth Elworthy, 19, had a fall at her home in Rogerstone in December, doctors at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, feared she had damaged the baby and could lose it at any moment.

She was told there was a strong chance her baby would be born with a mental disorder and was offered the chance of a termination.

Miss Elworthy said: "I was terrified that I would wake up one day and she'd be dead. "I was 22 weeks pregnant when I had the fall and I lost most of the water around the baby.

"The doctors said I could terminate the pregnancy but we knew we had to just remain optimistic and hope.

"We didn't think she'd make it this far but it was only fair to give her a chance at life." Miss Elworthy and her partner Leon Roberts, 20, also refused an amniocentesis test - where fluid is drawn from around the baby to determine any potential genetic defects - because it increases the risk of miscarriage.

Miss Elworthy had to have regular steroid injections to support her unborn baby's fragile lungs and was in hospital for a month over Christmas before finally giving birth on January 12.

Miss Elworthy said: "She's a little bit of a miracle really."

Now her delighted parents have just a few weeks to wait for Jasmine to be strong enough to come home.

She now weighs 2lbs 9oz and is expected to be ready to leave hospital by the end of the month.

And when they have settled Jasmine in, her parents plan to wed in May.