A devoted Scots mum has told how she needs to hold her baby boy 24 hours a day and move him every hour while he sleeps due to a rare neurological condition.
Charlene Stewart's little boy Blake suffers from spina bifida, which causes defects in the spinal cord and means he is paralysed from the waist down. The 34-year-old mum declined the option of terminating her pregnancy when medics discovered her unborn baby had the condition at just 16 weeks.
As reported by Edinburgh Live, Blake was taken straight from his mother's bedside into emergency surgery to close his spinal canal when when he was born in March this year - meaning Charlene couldn't see him until the next day. After that, the brave youngster had seven major operations and spent the first three months in hospital until he was old enough to get a shunt fitted in his spine.
