AL - Alabama Baby Born Without a Nose, Mom Says He's Perfect

Eli Thompson came into this world in the late afternoon of March 4, perfectly healthy, but with one distinction -- he didn't have a nose.

"The day I delivered, everything went fine," mom Brandi McGlathery told ABC News yesterday. "At 4:42 when he was born, he came out and the doctor put him on my chest. When I took a closer look at him, I said, 'He doesn't have a nose,' and they took him out of the room." McGlathery said that her doctor sat beside her bed to explain to her what was wrong with Eli.

"He had the most apologetic look on his face," she said. "I knew right away that something was wrong."

Although her baby showed no signs of additional abnormalities, McGlathery said she was at first shocked and upset to hear the news from her doctor.

Dr. R. Craig Brown, McGlathery's obstetrician, said his own research has revealed only 38 cases of "absolutely nothing being wrong other than no nose." That's very, very rare.

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Jan said:

Poor baby. I'm sure plastic surgery can fix that.

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fred&edna said:

Adorably-sweet video, as well as additional information on the condition at the link below:

"Congenital arhinia can make it hard for babies to breathe and feed; however, there have been cases in which people with the condition live into adulthood. Eli doesn’t have a nasal cavity of olfactory system either."

"However, they don’t expect to put him through any reconstructive surgeries until he’s well into puberty — the condition also affects his pituitary gland, which synthesizes and secretes many of the hormones involved with puberty."

http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/a...ne-197-million-what-congenital-arhinia-327788


And a FB page for Eli:

https://www.facebook.com/TimothyElisStory?fref=ts

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