Baby born with a head like an ALIEN has life-saving surgery to break his skull and put it back together again

Harry Barker (left), 18 months, from Liverpool, was diagnosed with craniosynostosis when he was born - a rare defect which causes an abnormal-shaped head (right). 


Doctors told his mother, Kylie, 28, that he had the skull of a fully-grown adult and was at risk of brain damage. He was forced to undergo two major operations when he was just months old to ease the swelling on his brain - and was left temporarily blind. But neither operation (inset), which broke apart his skull and then put it together again, was completely successful and doctors have warned he will need further surgery in future. The condition causes him to suffer from intense pain when he moves his head as a result of his over-sized skull.