29-YEAR-OLD mum of three Lauren has gone viral on TikTok after revealing that her baby was "put into a plastic bag" immediately after being born. Lauren recalls "physically trying to have a baby" from the age of 13 and was just 15 years old when she gave birth to her first child Blake (now 13). Blake was born three months premature after doctors "couldn't find his heartbeat" and took Lauren in to have an emergency cesarean. As she told Truly, Lauren could not have predicted what came next: "They took him straight into intensive care, but when they did show us a photo he was in a sandwich bag". She later found out that this was to "help him regulate his temperature", as Blake fought to survive - and that's exactly what he did. Lauren has since had two further children - Amelia (7) and Rowan (2) - with all her children coming from different fathers. She now lives with her three children and her partner Sean, who is Rowan's dad - a setup she describes as a "blended family". But when Lauren posted the photo of Blake in the sandwich bag on her TikTok account "for Blake's sake, to show him how strong and resilient he has been", she was not prepared for the backlash she received. Comments likening the photo to a "bag of carrots" and others suggesting Blake could be bullied if his peers at school found out how he started life sparked a controversy that Lauren was not expecting. Many have also judged her for becoming a teen mum at 15 - something that was a sore spot at the time, with Lauren telling her mum Rachel that she was pregnant via text message. Given the fact that Rachel "didn't speak to [Lauren] for two days" all those years ago, how will Rachel react when her daughter reads that text message back to her over 13 years later? Will Lauren be met with the silent treatment once more?
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