Baby Willow’s mum describes her as an “old soul”. At just three months she has already undergone two life saving surgeries, one before she even left her mother’s womb.
At 20 weeks gestation, a routine scan revealed a life-threatening cyst growing on tiny Willow’s left lung, dangerously compressing her other organs.
The “size of an adult hand”, her doctor described it as the “most severe” case he’d ever seen.
“Without treatment there was no question that she would die in Sam’s tummy,” Dr Ryan Hodges, Head of Perinatal Services at Monash Health told 60 Minutes.
“It wouldn’t have surprised any of us if she didn’t make it through the night, she was that sick.”
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Amazing what these surgeons can do. My daughter needed surgery on her brain at 10 days old and she was already premature, so tiny! It was incredible to me the confidence her surgeon had to have to operate on a brain of that size and reassure us that she would be ok.