My baby daughter had a crooked smile it was actually a fatal brain tumor

When Naomi and Aaron think about their baby girl, they remember her bright spirit, contagious laugh and most of all, her beautiful smile.Tragically, it was little Lola’s smile that would be the first subtle sign that something was very wrong – before she sadly passed away a few months later.Back in 2021, the adorable ‘chubby cheeked’ infant was a thriving and healthy baby who was hitting all her milestones.Her arrival into the world made the Ross family complete, with Naomi and Aaron delighted that their older children Toby, 11, and Maya, seven, had a little sister.But when she was 10 months old, doctors revealed the earth-shattering news that no parent should ever have to hear.Lola had cancer.“Lola was such a happy and smiley little baby, we just adored her,” Naomi, from Kellyville, NSW, told news.com.au.“We never imagined anything like this could ever happen to us.”“The first thing we noticed was that she had been vomiting a little, but we put it down to just being a daycare bug and we didn’t think too much of it.”“We’d been to the GP about it, but nobody was too worried.”“One thing we had noticed, but also didn’t think too much about was that she had a little bit of a crooked smile.”“We kind of made little jokes about it and laughed, but we didn’t put it down to being anything sinister.“There was one day she just looked unwell and a bit blank.I knew in my stomach something was not right, so we took her to the hospital.“Another thing is we noticed she began using her right arm more than her left.

We thought this was odd.”Doctors noticed Lola’s crooked smile and paired with the fact she was no longer using her left arm much, they decided to run some different tests to find out what was going on.“We were scared.We didn’t know what was going to happen,” Aaron said.“We just had a feeling that something wasn’t right when the doctors and nurses were talking behind a window and were taking a while to come out.“B...