Baby Born With Her Heart Outside Her Body Survives Against All Odds

Baby Born With Her Heart Outside Her Body Survives Against All Odds
Glenfield Hospital where baby Vanellope Hope Watkins was born on Nov. 22, 2017. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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A baby has been born with her heart outside her body, with amazing footage of her birth now being made public.

Vanellope Hope Watkins was born on Nov. 22 at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK. She was due on Christmas Eve, but her condition—ectopia cordis—meant she had to be born early by cesarean section.

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