Betty and Delilah Kemp-Bishop were born three days before Christmas.  Ready to take their parcels of joy home, the girls’ parents were shocked to realise one of them would require a little extra unwrapping.

Betty was born with an ill-formed oesophagus, causing it to fuse with her trachea.  She was raced to the RCH for emergency surgery to undo the join.  Though the surgery was a success, Betty’s weak oesophagus lacked the strength to swallow saliva or food and so she’s spent the past three months in the RCH Neonatal Unit under close watch by doctors.

Read the full story at Sunday Herald Sun online: Stubborn Betty proves her mettle.

Photo courtesy of the Sunday Herald Sun