Little Yvie Margetts with her grandmother, Becky, whose Condor colleagues are staging a fund-raiser for the family. (Picture by Zoe Ash, 0792044)

ONE baby Guernsey girl has defied doctors’ expectations by surviving a series of gruelling operations.

Yvie Margetts, aged 18 months, was born with a heart defect which resulted in four operations – including two open heart – but three weeks ago she returned to Guernsey and has never been better.

‘Doctors have said so many times they don’t know how she has made it through the night.

‘She has just made up her own rules and they have no idea how she keeps pulling through. She has always beaten the odds,’ said Yvie’s mum, 27-year-old Laura.

A week after 18-month-old Yvie was born, Mrs Margetts and her husband, 28-year-old Daryl, a window cleaner, were told she had a heart defect.

The family were referred to Southampton Hospital but an operation could not be performed until she was at least six months old.

A further MRI scan revealed Yvie also had neurological problems.

The pons, an area of the brain which controls sensory information and regulates respiration, had not formed properly.

‘There is no name for her condition and it is not genetic, but all of her problems stem from this neurological problem,’ said Mrs Margetts.