Baby has eight organ transplant

Wearing a pink dress, an Italian baby girl who received eight new organs in a single transplant operation cried and cooed today as her mother held the infant in her arms and looked forward to her daughter’s future.

“Her biggest feeling is happiness,” said a doctor who was translating for Monica Di Matteo, 39, mother of 7 1/2-month-old Alessia Di Matteo. On her daughter’s future, the mother was “hoping for a normal life.”