This is the incredible moment a baby who was born with half a heart smiled for the first time.
Charlie Douthwaite is 13-weeks-old and is currently recovering from a lifesaving heart transplant operation he underwent before Christmas.
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Proud mum Tracie Wright says Charlie is making slow but steady progress since the operation at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital in November.
The 30-year-old mum said: ‘It was amazing to see that smile.’
Charlie was born on October 2, weighing 6lbs 5oz, and was the smallest baby in Europe waiting for a heart.
He had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition where the left side of the organ is underdeveloped and cannot work properly.
His aorta was also narrow and had a hole in it while there was another hole between two of the chambers of the heart.
Tracie added: ‘We can’t describe what Charlie means to us he is the most special and precious baby boy.’
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