Baby born with organs on the outside

Nell had to undergo an operation to mend her heart (Picture: North News)

A baby girl needed an emergency life-saving operation after she was born with her stomach, bowel and liver outside her body in a bag of skin.
Nell Marshall, who was the only survivor of triplets, was born with exomphalos, a condition that means her abdomen did not fully develop in the womb.
This means that her stomach, bowel and liver were born outside her body and she now faces a major operation to put them back inside her.

 

 

But Nell also needed emergency surgery after it was discovered that she had a hole between the vessels coming out of her heart.
She was taken from Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary to Freeman Hospital where she underwent a five-and-a-half hour operation.
The surgery to put her organs back inside her will take place in six weeks time when she has had some time to grow and develop.
‘Even though she has been through so much, she’s never given up,’ her mother, 35-year-old Joanne Marshall, told the Chronicle.

 

Nell will undergo surgery to put her organs inside her in six weeks (Picture: North News)

‘She’s still smiling. She is very placid and enjoys shuffling about on her bottom at the minute.’
Joanne and father Andrew, 45, have spoken of their gratitude to staff at the Freeman Hospital’s Children’s Heart Unit.