Aaliyah Hart was just seven inches long and weighed 12oz when she was born three months prematurely in 2003.
Doctors gave her a one per cent chance of survival when they found that her lungs had not developed properly.
Aaliyah Hart was born three months prematurely weighing just 12oz. She was given a one per cent chance of survival because her lungs were not yet fully developed.
When she was born she was just seven inches long. Her mother was told that she might die in the womb.
But Aaliyah - who was small enough to sit in the palm of her mother's hand - astounded medics by surviving.
When she started school five years ago her mother, Lorriane, 47, was nervous she would be knocked over in the playground because she only weighed the same as a two year old.
But the youngster has since grown into a healthy schoolgirl and is now a similar size to her classmates - standing at 4ft and weighing 4 stone.
Amazingly, sporty Aaliyah now loves nothing more than playing football against a team of boys and has been named captain of the girl's football team at the independent Rosslyn School in Hall Green, Birmingham.
Ms Hart, who was told her daughter might die in the womb, said she was amazed at how Aaliyah had taken to sports.
She said: ‘Aaliyah's a little tomboy - she loves playing with the boys and she's developed a really sporty side recently.
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