Ventilator baby 'reacts to music'
Updated on 06 November 2009
A seriously disabled one-year-old boy whose estranged parents are divided over whether he should be allowed to live or die has shown signs that he "appears to like music", the High Court has heard.
Baby RB, although "at the most severe end of the spectrum of disability" and therefore difficult to assess, had been seen to make "purposeful movements" and derive some enjoyment from being comforted and cuddled by his parents, a senior nurse matron in the boy's intensive care unit told the court.
The boy is largely immobile and unable to breathe without a ventilator, but his brain is thought to be active, expert witnesses have said.
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