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"      Baby boy dubbed &amp;#039;real-life Pinocchio&amp;#039; by proud mum after brain grew inside his nosehttps://t.co/7okOJ6H0GI pic.twitter.com/KFA8oDqFg1 \u2014 Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) December 14, 2015    As any young parent would be, 22-year-old\u00A0mom-of-two Amy Poole\u00A0was ecstatic when she found out she was pregnant with her second child in 2013. But when her son, Ollie, was delivered in\u00A0February 2014, he was born\u00A0with a golf ball-sized lump on his nose, which doctors later confirmed was caused by encephalocele\u2014a rare\u00A0defect that causes the brain to grow through a hole in the skull.\u00A0Despite feeling scared for her little boy&amp;#039;s health\u00A0and watching him undergo multiple operations\u00A0so that\u00A0he could breathe properly,\u00A0Amy says her\u00A0son&amp;#039;s smiling face\u00A0kept her strong.\u00A0 &amp;quot;After the operation, Ollie had a huge zig-zag scar across his head. He must have been in so much pain, but he just kept\u00A0laughing,&amp;quot; she told the\u00A0Mirror. &amp;quot;His positivity made it so much easier for me.&amp;quot; On top of watching him\u00A0go through intensive\u00A0surgeries, Amy has also had to put up with obscene\u00A0comments from cruel strangers, who say\u00A0that Ollie is an &amp;quot;ugly&amp;quot; baby\u00A0and that he &amp;quot;should never have been born.&amp;quot;\u00A0      The real life Pinocchio: Toddler is born with his brain growing into his NOSE due to his\u2026 https://t.co/76CjlFK66o pic.twitter.com/CIwfZ0nXrL \u2014 EGamingBookie (@EGamingBookie1) December 14, 2015    &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s absolutely heartbreaking,&amp;quot; she told the Mirror. &amp;quot;Once, a woman told me I should never have given birth to him. I nearly burst into tears.&amp;quot; Still, Amy refuses to let the hate get to her and says she is more than proud of her little one-year-old, who continues to be happy and bubbly through it all. &amp;quot;I think he is absolutely perfect the way he is. There is nothing wrong about being different. He is my special little Pinocchio, and I will never stop loving him.&amp;quot; (H/T: Mirror)\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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