A BRAVE toddler is finally home with his family after spending his entire life in hospital.
Theo Chatham, from Bonnybridge, near Falkirk, weighed just 3lb when he was born prematurely at 32 weeks in April 2021.
The tiny newborn was then blue-lighted to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow at three weeks old with a life-threatening infection.
Doctors diagnosed Theo with necrotising enterocolitis – a deadly disease which eats away at the colon. He had three life-saving surgeries in a week to remove almost half of his intestines.
By the time he was 17 months old, Theo had undergone 25 major operations as well as hundreds of smaller procedures.
His parents Sarah and Gary had prepared for their baby son to have a long recovery period in hospital but the months then turned into years.
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