A "perfect" baby girl died after an operation designed to help treat a serious bowel condition.
Mum Hayley Ryder was told her daughter, who was born 15 weeks early, had necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) a serious condition that can affect newborn babies, where tissue in the bowel (small and large intestines) becomes inflamed. Nevaeh was taken to Alder Hey Hospital for surgery and Hayley was told her daughter, Nevaeh Arlea Sanders, only had a 10% survival rate.
Nevaeh, who was described as "perfect" by Hayley recovered well from her first operation but needed a second procedure two days later. After this surgery Nevaeh did not recover. She suffered from a huge cardiac arrest and the next day doctors discovered her brain was badly damaged, and her organs were failing.