AMAZING! Baby Girl With Terminal Disease Makes Miraculous Recovery After Life Support is Turned Off

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A baby girl with terminal disease made a quite miraculous recovery after her parents kissed her goodbye and her life support was turned off, leaving her parents and medics stunned. The baby girl, Bella, celebrates Christmas Day at home today with her elated family at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

According to DailyMail, just five months ago, her devastated mum, Francesca, 41, and dad Lee Moore-Williams, 44, watched as their baby daughter took what they thought was her last breath. They took one last photograph, and wept as one-year-old Bella lay sedated in a hospital’s intensive care unit and her life-supporting ventilator was turned off.

But incredibly just 30 minutes later, the toddler, who doctors had given up for dead, began to improve and soon she began kicking and screaming.

The elated mum-of-two said: ‘It’s just amazing. It’s like we have won the lottery. She made our family complete and it now is great to see how well she is doing. When she says “mama” it melts my heart.’

Bella’s parents first became concerned about their daughter’s heath when she started losing clumps of hair at just 14 months of age in April.

She couldn’t sit up properly in her high chair and would slump but hospital tests failed to find a reason why.

Doctors believed she may have had asthma and Bella was prescribed an inhaler as she also suffered from chest infections. But just three months later in July, while the family were on holiday in Gran Canaria, Bella took a turn for the worse. Throughout the entire holiday she clung on to her mum as her energy levels dropped.

The day after the family landed back home they took Bella to the family doctors who submitted her to Colchester Hospital, Essex. By lunch time they had performed a test on her legs which showed they were ‘depressed’ and had no movement.

She was drifting in and out of consciousness as she didn’t have the energy to stay awake so she was put on a ventilator and transferred to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

Bella was admitted to intensive care and an MRI scan showed severe abnormalities across both sides of her brain. The family were told that it was likely Bella had Mitochondrial disease – which is terminal.

Francesca, a sales supervisor at a construction company, said: ‘We were told three times that it’s not looking like she was going to survive, so every day we were sat at her bedside praying.’

A few days passed and they tried to take Bella off the ventilator to see if she could breathe by herself but she couldn’t and was re-tubed.

Mrs Moore-Williams said:

‘The doctors didn’t want us to cling on to any hope because the signs were showing it was Mitochondrial and they weren’t expecting it to be Biotinidase deficiency as it only affects around two people in the UK every year. The days passed which was obviously very traumatic and we had the whole family by our sides.
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On July 21 we were told to say our goodbyes and the whole family came in one by one to say their goodbyes. I just kept sitting there thinking “why us?” It was heart wrenching because you see family members that you’ve never seen cry before.

I’m daddy’s little girl and I’ve never seen my dad break down before and it was just heart breaking. I now feel a lot of guilt for bringing family members there to say goodbye but I didn’t know that at the time. I will never, ever forget that moment where I had to say goodbye to my daughter.’

The family accepted an offer to get prints of her hands and feet as a memento. They took a final picture together with their son Bobby, 5, before the ventilator was switched off. But 30 minutes later her oxygen levels were back up to 100 per cent and the traumatised parents were later told Bella would survive, and now, they all get to celebrate the holidays as one very happy family as they behold their Christmas miracle.

She added:

‘She’s now learning to talk and her hair is growing back and she’s even walking. She’s about eight months behind where she should be but doctors are confident she will pick up quite quickly. She’s at nursery and to look at her you wouldn’t think she’s been through what she has.

Her body was slowly shutting down but she’s obviously a strong little fighter. Life is never normal for us now but you change your perception of what normal is. But it’s just amazing – it’s like we have won the lottery.

She made our family complete and now it’s great to see how well she is doing and when she says “mama” it just melts my heart. We are so excited to be together this Christmas and sit and watch them open their presents.

Bella loves Father Christmas so we can’t wait to have the Christmas we thought we’d never have six months ago.’