Miracle baby with heart outside body delivered safely

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Baby Vanellope Hope has an extremely rare condition, ectopia cordis, which had her heart growing on the outside of her body.

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Fifty clinical staff at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester worked together to safely bring her into the world.

Her parents, Naomi Findlay and Dean Wilkins, discovered the news at a nine-week scan. Find out more on the incredible story in the video above.

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