Chinese Baby Born With Heart Growing Outside His Body

Dateline Zero — For two-month-old Xin Xin, the wonders and beauty of life are on severe and tenuous hold as doctors struggle to save him from a very rare condition known as an ectopic heart, in which only a thin membrane covers the organ.

According to an article at Live Science: “Only about eight babies per million are born with the condition … very few make it past their first day of life.” Therefor, this is a true miracle already. Xin Xin has defied the odds.

Despite the urgency, doctors are using a lot of restraint. Premature surgery could kill fragile Xin Xin.

Xin Xin has been forced to wait three months for a life-saving operation. The Mail reports: “Doctors have admitted the vulnerable two-month-old baby will have to wait another month before he will have any chance of surviving an operation to put the organ inside his body.”

In the meantime, tiny Xin Xin’s heart can clearly be seen beating outside his chest… Full article at Dateline Zero.