Aurea is the first baby in the world to be ‘selected’ after being genetically screened before birth for a host of diseases

Daily Mail News UK

By RACHAEL PELLS FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 17:02 EDT, 17 October 2022 | UPDATED: 03:19 EDT, 18 October 2022

Becoming a parent for the first time is a major moment for anyone — but for Laura Gayton, giving birth to a healthy, crying baby boy felt nothing short of a ‘miracle’.

Laura, a swimming teacher from Kettering, Northants, is one of around 10,800 people in the UK with cystic fibrosis (CF), a progressive genetic disease that claims the lives of half of those affected before the age of 40.

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