A baby born without a top layer of skin is now six months old - despite being born looking 'like a piece of uncooked meat'.
Jessica Kibbler and Jack Shattock, were just 19 years old when their baby arrived in excruciating pain.
Kaiden Jake Shattock was born ten weeks premature at Nottingham City Hospital on November 24 weighing 2lb 7oz.
And even nurses had to leave the room to 'cry their eyes out' as they processed the mystery ailment that left the tot without skin.
For ten days the new parents were not able to hold their son - and it took six weeks for Kaiden to start growing skin.
Now six months old he is living at home with his parents but a month ago he had to have a skin graft to transfer skin from his stomach to his right arm.
He is expected to need at least four more operations over the next year and has been admitted to Warwick Hospital for emergency treatment six times.
The only skin Kaiden was born with was on his face and since birth he had battled sepsis, necrotising enterocolitis, congential herpes, dermolysis and bronchiolitis.
The doctors told us twice that he probably wouldn’t survive, but we decided that we’d do absolutely everything we could to pull him through.'
Jessica had a kidney complication called hydronephrosis during her pregnancy. She also suffered bleeding nearly three months before Kaiden’s due date, before going into early labour.
Kaiden's case is now being investigated by experts abroad.
Baby born without any skin on its body defies doctors' grim prognosis
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Jessica Kibbler and Jack Shattock, from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, were just 19 years old when their baby arrived in excruciating pain.
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