Meet Baby Born With Vital Organs Outside Her Body

A baby girl who prior to her birth was diagnosed with exomphalos is left needing life-saving heart surgery after she was born with her organs on the outside of her tiny body.

The Mirror UK reports; Nell Marshall, the only survivor of triplets, was born with her stomach, bowel and liver outside of her body inside a bag of skin. The brave tot now faces a major operation in six weeks time to put the organs back where they should be.

Mum Joanne Marshall, 35, told The Chronicle: “Even though she has been through so much, she’s never given up.”

The condition occurred because Nell’s abdomen did not develop fully in the womb, meaning her she was born with some of her organs on the outside of her body. A heart scan carried out five days later revealed some shocking news for the family.

Joanne, said: “The cardiologist told us they had found something that he’d never before seen in his 30 years of working. They had discovered a hole between the vessels that come out of the heart.

“We were then told the condition was not survivable and that, as things got worse, she would struggle to breathe.”

Nell was moved from Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary to the city’s Freeman Hospitaland surgeons told the family, including dad Andrew, 45, that they were trying to delay an operation as long as possible so that their daughter could grow and get stronger.

Source: mirror.co.uk