The parents of a baby born with serious heart conditions thought they'd "never see him again" when he turned blue after being born. Karl Chester and partner Katie Bradshaw were told of their son's right-sided aortic arch before in the lead-up to his birth.
The condition is where the heart's arteries wrap around the trachea. It often does not have any symptoms, so at first Karl and Katie were optimistic that there wouldn't be any issues.
But, as the couple told the LiverpoolECHO, they were left "terrified" when little Reid turned "blue" after an emergency caesarean in May. He was quickly placed in a ventilator at their local hospital in Warrington, but it was soon clear that he needed further care and was transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
