‘I wanted to do all I could to save my child’s life’

A BABY girl now recovering well after receiving a section of her mother’s liver two months ago was not expected to see her first birthday without the life-saving transplant.

Eleven-month-old Ieva Zukaskaute from Rahoon, Co Galway, and her mother, Kristina, underwent the complex procedure on September 13 at King’s College Hospital in London.

Ieva had been diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare disease that affects newborns, when she was six-weeks-old.