A miracle baby born with her heart wired the wrong way round survived major surgery at just eight-days-old and is now home and hitting all her milestones. Daphne Payne, now five-months-old, was born with a congenital heart defect known as transposition of the great arteries - where the two main blood vessels leaving the heart are swapped over.
Her mum, Hayley Farrer, 35, was told at her 20-week scan that there was something wrong with Daphne's heart and was given the diagnosis a few days later. Hayley and her partner started to frantically Google to find out more about the condition.
Doctors originally planned to induce Hayley so she could give birth by C-section but Daphne's heartbeat kept dropping. After being closely monitored by hospital staff, Daphne was delivered naturally on August 26, 2022, at 38 weeks, weighing 6lb 13oz and is now hitting "every milestone".
