{"id":156569,"date":"2016-11-14T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=156569"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:50:21","slug":"twin-sister-born-with-brain-outside-skull-defies-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/twin-sister-born-with-brain-outside-skull-defies-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin sister born with her brain outside her skull defies the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the 13-week ultrasound for their identical twin baby girls, parents Charlotte Youds and Will Todd, both age 20, were given devastating news.\u00a0Their midwife noticed that something wasn’t right with one of the twins, and the couple was sent to see a specialist. Doctors there told the couple that one of the girls had encephalocele. Her brain was growing outside of her skull, and she likely wouldn’t survive after birth.<\/p>\n

The couple continued on with the pregnancy, choosing not to abort either girl, and in July, twins Sophia and Aniyah were born. Aniyah surprised everyone by living.<\/p>\n

“It was hard to buy baby clothes, and prepare for birth,” Youds\u00a0told the Daily Mail<\/a>. “However, after she was born and struggled to breathe and as she turned cold in our arms we finally accepted what we thought was going to happen and said goodbye. After around an hour she was still with us and doctors kept coming in to check what was going on and looked shocked that she was still alive.”<\/p>\n