This mother was told to abort her baby with no eyes, has no regrets

This is little Daisy Smith.
When her mother Danielle Davis was pregnant she was advised to terminate the child as routine scans showed a cyst on her brain.
The cyst meant Daisy’s eyes didn’t form at all – instead she just has holes where the eyes are meant to be.

What is anophthalmia?

Anophthalmia affects one in 10,000 births in the UK.

The mother-of-three ignored doctors, continued with her pregnancy and Daisy was born with the condition ‘anophthalmia’ – meaning no eyes.
The 24-year-old and her partner Andrew Smith, 31, says they have no regrets about their decision.

Her family want her to be as normal as possible (Picture: Dimitris Legakis/Athena Picture Agency)

Danielle said:

It was a shock – we had never heard of it before. But she is our gorgeous baby and we have no regrets about turning a termination.
We want to give Daisy as normal a life as possible and give her the same opportunities as other children.
We had never heard of the condition before and neither had any of our friends or family. People didn’t really know what to say when we told them.
The cyst showed up on the 21-week scan and naturally we were worried about it.
But none of the doctors said our baby could be born blind. Everyone has been really supportive and I can’t thank the doctors and midwives enough for all of their help.

Daisy, now eight weeks old, is settling in at home in Cwmbran, South Wales, with her siblings Logan, six, and Tyler, four.
She will be admitted to the Great Ormond Street Hospital later this month for an operation to fit glass balls to open up the eye cavity.
They will be replaced when she is 18-months-old with normal sized coloured eyes that will look more natural.