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Simona Kitanovska

Mom’s Agony : Mom Of Terminally Ill Baby Gets Told By Nurse She ‘Can Always Have Another One’

The mom of a terminally-ill baby who is just one of six children in the world with a rare genetic condition has revealed how she was told by a nurse: “You can always have another one.”

Phoebe Elliot, 26, says she regularly gets insensitive comments from complete strangers about her daughter Maisie, who suffers from Galloway-Mowat syndrome 6.

The extremely rare genetic disorder means the five-month-old struggles to see, eat and move, and is unlikely to survive into late childhood.

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