doctors gave him just a 20 per cent chance of survival and advised his mum many times to terminate. His tiny heart and lungs were being crushed by his intestines, which had escaped through a hole in his abdominal wall and into his chest cavity.
Devastated parents Lisa MacDonald and Barry French were warned that if their son took just one deep breath at birth it could be fatal, as there was no room for all his organs in one small space.
Even if Cody did survive, they feared there was a chance he would need 24-hour care for the rest of his life, as his tiny body had been starved of oxygen.But as she watches her boy “run rings” around her and her partner and his three older siblings, Lisa knows she made the right decision.The 38-year-old, from.
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