Little Scots boy with Spina Bifida defies odds by moving legs after mum underwent foetal surgery

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Scots mum who was advised to consider abortion after discovering her son would be paralysed has shared his amazing progress after she underwent ground breaking foetal surgery.

Lauren Wark, 28, was 20-weeks into her pregnancy when doctors broke the devastating news that her son Phoenix would be born with Spina Bifida.

Spina bifida is a birth defect that occurs when the spine and spinal cord don't form properly. Doctors told Lauren and her husband Gordon, 34, that their unborn baby would likely never walk due to the condition.However, little Phoenix, now two, has defied the odds by gaining the ability to move his legs, crawl and even stand if he is supported.Lauren told the Record: "The difference in what we were told Phoenix could do compared to what he can do now is phenomenal."Every single day he is doing things we thought he never could and he has never stopped progressing.

He sat up on his own when he was five months and he started army crawling when he was 13 months and that is when he consistently started to move his legs." The couple, from Renfrewshire, knew very little about Spina bifida before the diagnosis.