Toddler who had pioneering surgery in the womb defies odds to walk – and even splashes in puddles 

A mother is beaming as her daughter masters the art of walking despite being told by doctors that she’d be paralysed. Bethan Simpson, 27, from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, says she could have fallen over with shock when she saw that her daughter, Elouise, now one, taking her first steps. After Eloise was diagnosed with spina bifida, … Read more