Boy Born Without A Brain, 6 Years Later Look At What Doctors Find Inside !

[Music] [Applause] british boy born with two percent of his brain celebrates ninth birthday when noah wall was born with just two percent of his brain due to a combination of rare genetic disorders doctors told his devastated parents that he'd never walk talk or eat on his own noah's odds of living past age one were so slim his parents had chosen a coffin and were already arranging his funeral before he was even born nine years later noah has grown eighty percent of his brain and dreams of becoming an astronaut noah was diagnosed in the womb with spina bifida a birth defect that occurs when the spine and spinal cord don't form properly causing the baby to be paralyzed from the chest down early brain scans showed that the baby was missing most of its brain due to a poor encephalic cyst in his head which was destroying his brain that's not all doctors believe little noah has developed edward syndrome and patau syndrome both very rare genetic disorders with low odds of survival edward syndrome also known as trisomy 18 is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of a third copy of all or part of chromosome 18 rather than just the two copies found in a healthy person only 13 in 100 babies born alive with edward syndrome will live past their first birthday patau syndrome also called trisomy this time the additional copy living in chromosome 13. only one in 10 children diagnosed with this rare genetic disorder survived past year one shortly after the boy from cumbria uk was born the baby made a life affirming scream it was incredible it was emotional said mother michelle wall who works as a full-time carer that was the first surprise given that doctors expected a stillborn when doctors performed an mri scan they were shocked to learn that noah was actually born with just two percent of his physical brain due to a rare condition called hydrocephalus which caused fluid to accumulate on the brain surely he'd lived the rest of his few remaining days in a vegetative state they all thought but somehow the brave boy made a miraculous recovery recently he celebrated his ninth birthday and he's doing fairly well he reads does math and even loves science according to his mother who homeschooled him and although he's wheelchair bound little noah has been surfing and skiing his meteoric recovery began seven weeks after he was born when doctors fitted a shunt into his head and a soft tube through which excess fluid was drained this made room for his brain to start growing its missing parts and neurons some doctors believe his brain was actually squashed and later expanded after room was made unfortunately the brain spinal cord connection was not regenerated so little noah cannot walk but otherwise noah seems to have developed into a fully functional nine-year-old boy which is almost a miracle considering what he went through it's astonishing to me how smart he is every single day he does something that impresses me he's even started using aftershave in preparation for puberty said mother michelle i'm so extremely proud of him he's my son his goal in life is to run it's what he wants to do i'll help him all i can and always be there for him noah is a patron of variety an ngo that works with disabled sick and disadvantaged children as well as the music man project which promotes disabled children in britain's biggest stages follow noah on instagram you