SHE came into the world ten weeks early weighing 2lb 2oz, and her first clothes were from a doll's accessory range.
Today, Chloe Blessington is the picture of health as she becomes a teenager, a far cry from her parents' anxiety of finding out she wasn't growing, 28-weeks into the pregnancy.
Tiny Tears T-shirts have long since been replaced by Hollister's latest look, and a disco party before the end of term ensured she was surrounded by her friends ahead of the big day.
The milestone birthday has had proud mum Tracey Blessington looking back on the news that rocked their world.
Older brother Jacob, 14, was full term, but Chloe became the first of three children born to her and partner Lee Cross to develop complications, with another daughter stillborn and younger brother Sam severely disabled.
Tracey, 35, recalled: "I went for the regular midwife visit and she said I wasn't very big. I was sent for a scan, and they used her thigh bone and arm bone to check, with me going back two weeks later to compare the difference. She hadn't grown at all.
"They did more tests and found the blood-flow was going backwards, from her to me, not me to her."
That was discovered at 10.35am, 13 years ago. Thirty-five minutes and an emergency cesarean section later, and Chloe emerged, weighing just under 1kg, ten-weeks early.
"She came out and everything was fine, she started growing well, and didn't have any problems. She wasn't on a ventilator or anything like that, just oxygen for the first 16 hours, said Tracey.
Five-and-a-half weeks later, in early September, she was home, with dad and her big brother, weighing 4lb 9oz.
Today a 25ft bouncy castle has been booked for friends and family to celebrate some more, after the music fun at Stallingborough Village Hall with her Healing School friends, where she will return in Year Nine come September.
Grimsby's neonatal unit cannot be praised enough by Tracey, who was in the former site on Second Avenue, prior to the short move to the Diana, Princess Of Wales Hospital site, which is celebrating a decade of deliveries and high dependency care this year.
And while the work of the medical professionals is certainly not lost on Chloe, she isn't looking to forge a career from her early exposure, and instead harbours ambitions to become a hairdresser.
"I think she has seen enough of it all to last her a lifetime," said Tracey, with care for Sam an ongoing part of family life at their adapted bungalow on Grimsby's Aylesby Park, having had to move from Humberstone Road to accommodate his particular needs.
The star of Grimsby Town FC's 2013 team picture, and the recipient of a charity garden make-over, he suffered a massive brain haemorrhage when the same condition led to another emergency cesarean.
"We have been through every emotion," Tracey said. "Jacob was full term, Chloe was so early and just thrived, and we had another daughter who died, then there is Sam who is severely disabled.
"The whole team at Grimsby were brilliant with me, every time. I was under Dr Adiotomre with Sam, and she was fantastic. I don't like people beating about the bush, I like people to be frank, and they were all like that. The nurses are absolutely amazing."
Of any lasting affects on her daughter, she added: "She may be slightly little for her age, but I'm not the tallest person in the world!"
