from Bolton, said she was told about Alfie’s condition while pregnant. She was given several options – including terminating her pregnancy.
But Sarah chose to keep her baby, a decision she said she is “so glad” she made. “We’ve been told he might not make it to the age of five,” she told the Manchester Evening News . “They’re amazing little fighters, I don’t know where they get their strength from. “He was so tiny and he had this massive thing done to his heart.”Little Alfie was taken for his first open heart surgery on September 2.
At just a few days old, Alfie had his heart restructured during the Norwood procedure. The surgery rebuilds part of the heart and redirects the way blood flows.
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