GRANDVIEW, Mo — A Kansas City toddler defied great odds after undergoing a trailblazing surgery for a neural tube defect known as spina bifida.
2-year-old Wesley Londo’s mother, Paige Londo, learned during her 20th week of pregnancy after an anatomy scan that her baby had spina bifida, a birth defect that affects the spinal cord.
Babies with spina bifida can have severe disabilities, including altered brain development, decreased ability to move the lower body, difficulty walking, challenges with excretion, and hydrocephalus, or a buildup of fluid in the brain…