Case study: Baby joy followed transplant

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Case study: Baby joy followed transplant

Published Date: 24 December 2010
By Staff reporter

Heather Dyer had always dreamed of having children.
But doctors told her and husband Jamie she might not get the chance after she was diagnosed with an auto-immune problem eight years ago.

The 37-year-old from John o' Groats was on dialysis four times a day for a year before she heard there may be a donor.

Mrs Dyer's brother went through tests to see if he was a match for a transplant but her father Ian Greig, 63, was the only one who was the closest match.

She received one of her father's kidneys in 2008 at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow.

In January this year Mrs Dyer was told by her doctor she was pregnant.

Baby Caleb was born six weeks premature on 2 September after Mrs Dyer was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, but the family, above, are now looking forward to spending Christmas together.

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