The parents of a “simply perfect” baby have been left devastated after their daughter, born with “half a heart”, died just weeks after birth.
Little Astrid Tordoff was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome , a birth defect that was discovered by a midwife doing a routine check when she was just one day old.
The defect is a form of congenital heart disease which means the left lower pumping chamber of the heart doesn’t develop properly and the aorta, which carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body is smaller than usual.
