Lu Libing touches the belly of his pregnant wife, Mu, as they pose for pictures during an interview with Reuters at their home in Ganzhou
Lu Libing touches the belly of his pregnant wife, Mu, as they pose for pictures during an interview with Reuters at their home in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province March 13, 2014. Lu knew he had only one choice as the birth of his third child approached. He couldn't afford hefty fines that would be meted out by Chinese authorities, so he put the unborn child up for adoption. On the Internet he found "A Home Where Dreams Come True", a website touted as China's biggest online adoption forum, part of an industry that has been largely unregulated for years. Demand for such websites has been fuelled by rural poverty, China's one-child policy, limiting most couples of only one child, and desperate, childless couples. To match story CHINA-ADOPTIONS/ Picture taken March 13. REUTERS/Alex Lee

Maisy Vignes, who was born in December 2009 with a haemoglobin level of zero, has gone on to make a full recovery, having started going to primary school and impressing her teachers with her active mental and physical body.

Maisy from Tranmore, County Waterford in Ireland was born six weeks premature with absolutely no blood after her mother Emma Vignes, 31, absorbed her entire blood supply during pregnancy. Though the doctors are unable to pinpoint and tell exactly why this happened, they believe that the membranes in the womb might have rubbed together, which in turn might have caused a rupture. According to medicos, this would have led Maisy to lose all the blood in her tiny body.

The doctors feared that the girl would be brain damaged after being starved of oxygen in the womb. Maisy had only a thin plasma substance in her veins and required three blood transfusions during the two weeks that she was in the intensive care unit.

However, the little girl baffled everybody by surviving all odds, and is today an enthusiastic four-year-old loved by her family and class teachers. "There were cases recorded of people surviving with a haemoglobin level of four, but for any human to survive after having no blood at all was unheard of," her mother told London Telegraph.

Emma said that while she was in the 34th week of her pregnancy, she experienced a feeling of bloating and stopped feeling the movement of her baby. "I attended an appointment at hospital the next day and before I knew it the consultants were telling me I needed to go for an emergency cesarean section. I was wheeled down to theatre before I had a chance to tell anyone," said Emma.

The next one year was very stressful for the family as they were afraid that Vignes might have suffered from a brain damage. They, however, heaved a sigh of relief when she blurted out "Dada" for the first time when she was 15 months old.

Maisy has a four-month-old brother named Ellis, who too is perfectly normal. Emma said that the doctors at Waterford Regional Hospital were afraid that what happened to Miasy might happen to the second child as well, and so were extremely careful.

The case of Maisy is now being studied and discussed among medicos since a case like this has not been recorded anywhere else in the world, concluded her mother.