Baby Born Missing Most Of His Brain Celebrates Milestones
Their son's first birthday was a welcome cause for celebration for the family of a Florida baby born without a large part of his head and skull. Little Jaxon Buell wasn't expected to survive more than a few days after he was born last year.
On Facebook, more than 100,000 people now follow the boy's remarkable survival story and the hashtag #JaxonStrong.
Doctors discovered something wrong in the baby's head shape during a routine ultrasound when mom-to-be Brittany was pregnant, but they didn't know the exact cause. After Jaxon was born, Brittany and Brandon Buell were told he had a birth defect called anencephaly that occurs when the beginnings of the nervous system form incorrectly early on in the pregnancy. Most babies with the rare condition cannot survive long past birth.
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On Facebook, more than 100,000 people now follow the boy's remarkable survival story and the hashtag #JaxonStrong.
Doctors discovered something wrong in the baby's head shape during a routine ultrasound when mom-to-be Brittany was pregnant, but they didn't know the exact cause. After Jaxon was born, Brittany and Brandon Buell were told he had a birth defect called anencephaly that occurs when the beginnings of the nervous system form incorrectly early on in the pregnancy. Most babies with the rare condition cannot survive long past birth.
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