Christina Wyatt, born six weeks premature, has been discharged

Charlotte Wyatt finally set eyes on her two-week-old sibling Christina, born six weeks premature Portsmouth's St Mary's Hospital, on Saturday afternoon.

Their parents, Darren and Debbie Wyatt, from Portsmouth, Hants, said they were delighted to see the girls together.

The sisters were on the same ward but Charlotte's cough had kept them apart.

We are absolutely delighted, it will be nice to get her [Christina] home and then eventually Charlotte. Mrs Wyatt

Doctors had feared she might pass on an infection to the newborn so their meeting had to be postponed until Christina was discharged from the hospital.

"We are absolutely delighted," 24-year-old Mrs Wyatt told BBC News.

"It will be nice to get her home and then eventually Charlotte.

"We have been going to and from the hospital every day and then spending 45 minutes in each of their rooms because our sons only spend three hours in nursery and then we have to pick them up."

Charlotte Wyatt has been improving and eating solid food

The Wyatts' two boys, Daniel, three, and David, one, had to be placed in foster care while Christina was being born.

Earlier this month, the Wyatts won their long-running battle to remove an order which banned doctors from resuscitating their daughter should her condition worsen.

Charlotte's birth at 26 weeks, weighing just 1lb (0.45kg), left her brain-damaged, unable to crawl or walk and with severe sight, hearing, lung and kidney damage.