Photos: Twin Baby Born With Brain Outside Of Her Skull Defies All Expectations By Surviving

An identical twin who was born with a rare condition that caused her brain to grow outside of her skull has defied doctors by surviving. Aniyah Todd, had only 10 per cent of her brain and was diagnosed with encephalocele - and her family was warned she would likely die. 

Surgeons were forced to remove the majority of her brain tissue during a life-saving operation when she was just a day old.

But her parents Charlotte Youds, 20, and Will, 20, from Liverpool, were told to plan palliative care to prepare for her death.

However, Aniyah refused to give up. Just six days after she was born, she was discharged and reunited with her twin sister Sophia.

And last week she turned four-months-old, defying all medical odds to make it this far.