A MUM whose infant son needed a life-saving blood transfusion is backing an NHS drive to boost the number of donors.

Teacher Steph Davis, 39, gave birth to her son Aiden at Winchester Hospital.

Soon after the delivery, the newborn needed a life-saving blood transfusion.

Alfie’s mother’s blood had crossed the placenta and reacted against his own blood, which destroyed his red cells.

Steph, from Eastleigh, said: “There was a battle going on in Aiden’s blood. We were told the only way he could survive was with a full-blood exchange.

“He was a newborn. I’d only held him a couple of times, and within a few hours was told this was the only way to save him.”

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