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A healthy baby girl was born to parents who were both undergoing treatment for cancer during the pregnancy. It's been described as a 'miracle' by their cancer doctor. Baby Heidi was born healthy without suffering any side-effects from chemotherapy. Consultant haematologist, Dr Salim Shafeek, said being pregnant and having high-grade Non-Hodgkin lymphoma was exceptionally rare. Bethany and James Jefferson-Loveday spoke to Newsday about their experience. Bethany said: "It took a week from having had my diagnosis, to then have the confirmation that I can have the treatment in pregnancy, so I had a week of uncertainty in terms of the baby, which was a very difficult time". (Photo credit: James and Bethany Jefferson-Loveday)