Lioness Demi Stokes embodies strength and fitness as a professional footballer
but she was once a tiny 3lb baby having been born 10 weeks early.
“I was actually born down the toilet,”
reveals the Manchester City and England star, 30.
“So it was a bit a crazy entrance into the world.”
Like thousands of babies born prematurely every year in the UK
Stokes spent time on a neonatal unit before going home.
It’s only since becoming a parent herself that it’s really sunk in
how anxious a time that must have been for her own mum.
Stokes and her partner Katie Harrington have a six-month-old son, Harlen,
I can’t imagine what my mum was feeling [back then].