A ten-month old baby boy was rushed to intensive care and put on life support after a vessel in his heart opened.
Baby Oliver’s parents, Amelia and Brian Christie, saw their lives change forever when they were told he had a critical cardiac condition at his 20-week scan. At 26 weeks, it became clear he had hypoplastic left heart syndrome – a birth defect that affects normal blood flow through the heart.
The condition means the left side of the heart can’t develop properly as the baby grows. Oliver also had holes in his heart, high pulmonary pressures and a double outlet right ventricle.
