Mum told to 'stop comparing' her baby to others finds out he has rarest disorder
manchestereveningnews.co.ukClare Done’s son Buddy was just nine-months-old when alarm bells started to ring. She noticed the tot was failing to reach milestones including sitting up by himself.
But nothing could prepare single mum Clare for what came next. Buddy was taken to hospital for a checks and an MRI scan. Not only did he have a cyst on his brain, he also had a very rare chromosome abnormality.
The disorder is so rare that doctors believe Buddy may be only known case in the world. “I know you get people saying, ‘Stop comparing your child to other children,’ and I get that to a certain extent,” mum-of-two Clare, from the Little Hulton area of Salford , told the Manchester Evening News . “But I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t raise concerns. READ MORE: 'My heart is broken', says mum of Manchester aid worker killed in Ukraine as British prisoners released by pro-Russia forces “When they put Buddy’s chromosome abnormality in the system, nothing came up.
There’s no research of information on it. “I asked them if he could be the only child in the world with this chromosome abnormality and they said yes.
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