A mum who ignored medical advice to terminate her pregnancy has given birth to a baby daughter who has defied all odds.
Nursery assistant Katie White, 24, had a completely normal pregnancy up until she reached 20 weeks.
When the woman had an ultrasound scan at Mercy Hospital, St Louis, Missouri, however, a specialist doctor diagnosed her baby with hydrocephalus, defined by the NHS as a build-up of fluid in the brain.