MIRACLE BABY BORN WITH PART OF HER BRAIN OUTSIDE HER SKULL SURVIVES!!!!

A baby born with part of her brain outside her skull is thriving despite doctors giving her little chance of survival.

Faith Martin, now aged three months, was not expected to breathe on her own when she was born.

Doctors also explained to her heartbroken parents Jessica Williams, 20, and Aaron Martin, 21, that they wouldn't intervene if she couldn't breathe. That means she would be left to die.

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But the miracle baby defied doctors and their hypothesis. Immediately she was born, she started to cry, which was a sign that she could breathe.


But after her birth, she had a  sac-like protrusion of the brain, and the membranes that cover it, through an opening in the skull.

This brain defect is called  Encephalocele. It happens when the neural tube - an embryo's precursor to the central nervous system which comprises the brain and spinal cord - does not close completely during pregnancy.

So an operation was carried out to remove it. And now she's just like every other normal child.

Faith is now healthy.