In a heart-breaking incident, a baby, a nineteen-month-old girl, having a skull of a four-year-old had to get a surgery to stitch her eyes after her huge head stretched it. According to reports by Daily Mail baby, Aubrey Jones suffers from a condition called hydrocephalus that caused her head to grow to the big size of a four-year-old, which in turn caused her eyelids to drag upwards.

Further according to the media reports the mother was reportedly offered a late termination when it was diagnosed that her little one was suffering from the disorder via a scan. However, she reportedly wanted to continue with the pregnancy.

The doctors expected baby Aubrey not to live more than three hours and the baby was struggling to breathe and had almost no immunity when he was born. She almost died of sepsis when she was three months old. However, born after an emergency c-section on December 2016, she managed to endure about six surgeries a few months and has survived. However, she is expected not to be able to walk, crawl or be independent, according to media reports.

What is Hydrocephalus?

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that surrounds our brain and spinal cord are produced and stored in cavities in the brain called ventricles to help protect both the parts. The fluid if present in excess usually drains away from the brain by being absorbed by veins. It is when there is too much CFS in the ventricles is when you suffer from Hydrocephalus. This also causes the ventricles to enlarge to accommodate the extra fluid and then press on different parts of the brain.

A study defines the condition by saying, "Hydrocephalus is an active distension of the ventricular system of the brain resulting from inadequate passage of cerebrospinal fluid from its point of production within the cerebral ventricles to its point of absorption into the systemic circulation."

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