Baby with rare condition teaches lessons of resilience, unpredictability
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- 30 Jan 2023
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A bassinet sits beside the couch inside a Drayton Valley, Alta., home that bustles with the sounds of family life.
It is so still inside the bassinet that you would not immediately realize there is a little baby beneath the white and pink blanket — a baby named Amadea who has defied the odds.
When she was born in October, the doctors "gave us an hour — figured she wasn't going to make it an hour," said her mom, Rachel Dempster.
She was missing the top of her skull, had no visible nose and her brain was unusually structured.
But she survived.
"They were all completely shocked by that. Then it was, you know, a day. And then it was a week. A month. They stopped, eventually, counting." Read More…
