Noah Phelan's parents were hit with the shocking news that their unborn baby would need open heart surgery as soon as he was born when mum Josie Lloyd was just four months pregnant. At her 20-week anomaly scan, Josie and Connor were taken to one side and told the sonographer had found something not right with their baby, news that all expectant parents dread hearing.
Mum Josie said her panic spiralled when she was told it was their little boy's heart. Josie's first thought was: "You can't function without your heart."
Josie, from Pontygwaith in the Rhondda, said: "I was quite late finding out I was pregnant. We had our first scan just a few weeks before our 20 week scan. And the sonographer was taking their time and then they said 'I think there is something not quite right with his heart."
