{"id":167216,"date":"2017-06-09T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=167216"},"modified":"2017-06-09T20:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T00:17:30","slug":"mother-criticized-strangers-giving-birth-boy-birth-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-criticized-strangers-giving-birth-boy-birth-defect\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom chooses life for ‘Pinocchio’ child although stranger said ‘you should never have given birth to him’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At her 20-week ultrasound, Amy Poole learned that her preborn son had soft tissue growing on his face in an unexpected way. When the baby boy was born in February 2014, Poole was shocked to see his nose – which reminded her of Pinocchio.<\/p>\n

“When they gave me Ollie to hold, I was so surprised that I almost couldn’t speak,” Poole told The Daily Mail<\/a>. “He was so tiny, but there was this enormous golf-ball sized lump on his nose. At first I wasn’t sure how I would cope. But I knew that I would love him no matter what he looked like.”<\/p>\n

According to The Daily Mail, after baby Ollie was born, he received an MRI scan which confirmed doctors’ suspicions that he had an encephalocele. An encephalocele occurs when the brain grows through a hole in the skull, creating a protruding sac — which, in Ollie’s case, came through his nose.<\/p>\n

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