Born at 22 weeks and weighing only 500g, Allegra’s now a thriving tween!

31 Jan

Pieter van Zyl

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Allegra Lategan was the most premature baby in South Africa to survive and now, 12 years later, she's started high school and she’s brimming with confidence. (PHOTO: Supplied/ER Lombard)

The odds were heavily stacked against her when she was born at just 22 weeks and four days, weighing just 515g – a little more than a brick of butter.

Doctors didn’t think she’d survive and her parents were told to prepare for the worst.

But a lot has changed in the years that followed. Allegra Lategan is 12 now – and in her first year of high school.

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