A baby boy born with a swollen head is defying doctors who told his mother to terminate her pregnancy because he wouldn’t survive birth.
Doctors did not expect Lorenzo Pontone to survive when they diagnosed him with severe hydrocephalus – a condition which causes fluid to build up in the skull, making the brain swell – at his 20-week scan and offered his parents an abortion.
However, the couple wanted to give Lorenzo a chance – despite pressure from doctors to abort.
His father, Fernando Pontone said: “To me it sounded like the first thing they said to do was terminate. Read the full story here ▶
