This Baby Born With Her Brain Outside Her Head Has Proved All The Doctors Wrong

5The second opinion

In critical medical cases such as these, a second opinion is almost always advised. You cannot just rely on one doctor and his medical beliefs. Thankfully Karlie’s parents sought a second opinion from a different doctor who was able to give them hope and cleared her for operation.

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6What her mum was told

Weirdly enough Gemma was told during her pregnancy that her baby would be born without deformities, and would have no complications. It was only during her 20-week scan that she was made aware of something unseemly happening, but she had no idea that baby Karlie would have this critical an ailment.

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7They never mentioned what

Of all the deformities the doctors said that baby Karlie could have, they never mentioned the brain part. Gemma confirms that she was told that Karlie might have missing limbs, or missing eyes, and even her nose could be on an abnormal area. But luckily Karlie was born with all other features intact.

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8The other ailments

Besides, encephalocele Karlie also had cerebral palsy. She was also suffering from an unusual brain structure which is medically referred to as holoprosencephaly. She had a missing chromosome which is called 22 deletion syndrome. And also had microcephaly, which causes people’s head to grow smaller than the average size.

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