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When Craig and Jodie Basnett from Oldham welcomed their baby girl Xanthie nicknamed 'The Warrior Princess' into the world they quickly realised something was dreadfully wrong.
The couple's tiny daughter had a stroke in the womb before she was born – meaning she had to have brain surgery at three-days-old. Since then she has had several major surgeries, with potentially more needed in the future.
Jodie and Craig, who are also parents to eight-year-old Mason, say the pregnancy was completely normal. But when Jodie, 30, went into labour, Xanthie was stuck in the birth canal for longer than expected.
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“When she eventually came out we noticed straight away there was some swelling on her head,” explained Craig. “Her head had made it difficult for her to get out, so that was why she was struggling. She was taken for a scan and that confirmed she had hydrocephalus – a build up of fluid on the brain.
“The doctors explained she’d need emergency surgery to relieve the pressure so she’d have to be transferred from our local hospital to Saint Mary’s Hospital straight away. We suddenly went from expecting a full-term healthy baby to what was quite a rough time for the pair of us.”
The initial surgery at Saint Mary’s Hospital helped drain fluid from Xanthie’s brain but another surgery was needed three weeks later at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital to fit a shunt. In cases like Xanthie’s, a shunt is fitted to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain to another part of the body, such as the abdomen, where it can be more easily absorbed.
Craig, aged 31, said: “She’s now had four shunts in total, with the
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Two judges were 'wrong' to bail defendants facing trial for serious crimes due to barristers' strike action, the High Court was told.
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Nicky Shipp had been enjoying a holiday in Greece before an accident turned her trip into a nightmare. She was windsurfing when she fell into the water and hit her head – ripping two holes in her right eye in the process.
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