The story of Katie and Jaylen is a heart-rending one of a single mum caring for her young son, born with a hole in his abdominal wall. Photographer Morganna Magee met Katie in 2011. Then 20 years old, she was a single mother to Jaylen, a boy who was born with gastroschisis, a birth defect that results in a hole in a foetus's abdominal wall. He spent the first 19 months of his life in hospital and connected to a machine that fed him directly into his stomach for 17 hours a day. Now four years old, Jaylen is not yet able to live permanently at home. Katie struggles to work and study. Her days are filled with appointments and the administration of Jaylen's medical care
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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1J3Ae5H
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