A mother from London has revealed that she needs to feed her baby girl more calories per day than are recommended for an adult man. Samantha Holloway's daughter Agatha was born three months premature on New Year's Eve 2007 and weighed less than four pounds.

She experienced various health complications, including an immature gut, lung disease and a brain haemorrhage, and spent the next three-and-a-months in hospital. Now aged 16 months, Agatha is still six pounds underweight and on the advice of nutritionists she needs to consume "foods with a high fat and protein content to help her grow".

The little one regularly eats food items such as roast duck, mashed potatoes with olive oil, porridge with clotted cream and chocolate biscuits. Her family have been assured by doctors that she will not suffer any long terms effects as a result of what she has to eat while she is a baby. "Agatha needs foods with a high fat and protein content to help her grow," Mrs Holloway said.