Prime Minister Tony Blair offered his condolences to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah, who lost their infant daughter yesterday to a brain haemorrhage. Baby Jennifer Jane, who was born seven weeks prematurely, was just ten days old.
The prime minister, currently in Afghanistan, was visibly moved as he expressed his sympathy to the couple. “I know how much Gordon was looking forward to being a father,” he said. “I know how proud they were of Jennifer Jane and what wonderful parents they would have been to her.
“I am afraid there is very little that anyone can say of comfort at such a time, but… everyone in our country will be thinking of them at this time and keeping them in their prayers.”
Gordon and Sarah had kept a bedside vigil for Jennifer Jane, born by Caesarean section on December 28, since a hospital baptism on Sunday. Three days ago tests showed the baby had suffered a brain haemorrhage, a complication which sometimes occurs with premature infants.
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