‘Miracle’ Baby Is First In UK To Survive Being Born With Heart Outside Her Body
Naomi, from Nottingham, said doctors had consistently offered her the chance to terminate her pregancy, after experts told her: 'The chances of survival are next to none, the only option is to terminate, we can offer counselling.'
The determined mum concluded:
In the end I just said termination is not an option for me.
There's still a long way to go for the new family.
Only 50 known cases have reached the age of 12.
The oldest known survivor of ectopia cordis is Christopher Wall, born in Philadelphia in August 1975.
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