A premature baby who underwent major heart surgery is a "warrior and inspiration", her proud parents said.
Born three weeks prematurely, Savannah Cummings weighed just over five pounds. But it wasn't until she wasn't meeting her milestones and not putting on weight that her parents Stephen and Sharon Ruddy began to suspect something was wrong.
Taking their daughter to Warrington Hospital, young Savannah was soon diagnosed with Complete AVSD meaning she had two holes in her heart and it was not working the way it should. Dad Stephen, of Lodge Lane, said: "All of her energy was going because of this heart condition.