{
  "id": 12856517,
  "title": "US infant defies bleak odds from rare congenital trait: ‘Don’t quit before your child quits’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/us-infant-defies-bleak-odds-from-rare-congenital-trait-dont-quit",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-08T11:00:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/baby-rare-heterotaxy-syndrome-louisiana"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Wren Michelle Roberts was born with heterotaxy, a syndrome so rare a specialist could only find 15 similar cases South-eastern Louisiana couple Nick and Savannah Roberts planned to bury their infant daughter the weekend after she was born in September with an exceedingly rare combination of birth defects that her doctors feared was unsurvivable. But an unforeseen congenital trait in Wren Michelle…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}