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The Miracle Child of Heatherwood: A mother's intuition. A surgeon's gamble. A premature baby's impossible fight for life
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When Lynn and Brian welcome their sixth child into the world six weeks early, they are relieved to hear his first strong cry. But their relief is short-lived. Baby Robert begins turning blue in his cot, struggling for breath with a terrifying, high-pitched squeak that no one can explain.
Dismissed by local doctors and told she is an anxious mother seeing problems where none exist, Lynn refuses to accept that her son is fine. Her relentless fight for the truth leads to a police-escorted ambulance rush through London to Great Ormond Street Hospital - the world's most famous children's hospital. There, surgeons uncover an anomaly so rare it does not appear on any scan: a transected aorta strangling his trachea from the inside, choking him every time he cries.
Faced with pioneering open-heart surgery and fifty-fifty odds of survival, Lynn and Brian must sign a consent form and trust a team of surgeons attempting a procedure that has never been done before.
Based on a true story, The Miracle Child of Heatherwood is a gripping and deeply emotional biographical novel about the fierce power of a mother's love, the brilliance of medical science at its most extraordinary, and a tiny boy who simply decided to live.
Perfect for readers of medical memoirs, inspirational survival stories, and fans of Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon and The Children's Nurse.
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