Laurie Anderson and fiancé Daniel Moir, from Aberdeen, were told their unborn child had a condition called Tetralogy of Fallot during their 20-week scan leaving them 'shocked'.
A baby who was found to have a cluster of rare heart defects underwent life-saving surgery at a Glasgow hospital when he was just four-and-a-half months old. Relieved mum Laurie Anderson has now issued her heartfelt thanks to medics at the Royal Hospital for Children, who took excellent care of her son James Moir.
"That was a real shock to us and it was really hard. You always want a happy healthy baby and it's not something you expect. We went to Glasgow and they confirmed that he would need surgery within his first year of life. "He was only in intensive care for 18 hours and was in hospital for six days in total. Then when we came home, you would never have known he had open heart surgery other than a scar on his chest.
"Now I speak to mums who have children waiting for the surgery and talk them through it. At the time I knew nobody that this had happened to."
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