‘Miracle baby’ has no nose
Baby boy Eli Thompson was born 100 percent healthy—except that he did not have a nose.
His mother, Brandi McGlathery, told ABC news that “everything went fine” when she delivered her baby on March 4.
But when she saw her baby after the doctor put him on her chest, she observed that he did not have a nose.
The doctor, R. Craig Brown, said it was a “very, very rare case” and he knew of only 38 cases of babies with “absolutely nothing being wrong other than the nose.”
Brown said the 23-year old McGlathery, mother of three, had been her patient from the early stages of her pregnacy and that tests had shown that her baby had a nasal bone.
He added that other than not having a nose, the baby was “doing great.”
“I recounted everything that I did during my pregnancy to figure out if I did something wrong,” McGlathery was quoted in the report.
The report said the baby needed a tracheotomy to insert a tube in his neck that would assist him in breathing.
McGlathery said they already received training to manipulate her baby’s tube, as well as to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR.
Although the mother said that nothing else was wrong with Baby Eli “health-wise,” she said she was worried that her son would come home one day and say that “somebody made fun of my nose.”
On March 30, Eli was discharged from the hospital and has been well since then.
“He’s definitely started something and he has got a big purpose in life,” McGlathery said, saying her little boy was a “miracle baby.”
