A scared mum was left fearing for her child's life after doctors found a cyst the size of a football growing on her baby's neck.
Hairdresser Katie Clarenbone, 32, says the abscess resembled a third chin and it sent the family into a blind panic. The stylist and her husband James from Southampton, Hampshire, were concerned when doctors noticed a large fluid-filled cyst during her 20-week scan.
Medics called it a lymphatic malformation – a clump of vessels that form in a jumbled cluster causing unusual growths – and Katie he was referred to a foetal medicine doctor to make sure it wasn't obstructing her baby's airways.
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