A little girl born with a rare genetic condition which caused her to be born with an over-sized tongue is preparing to start school after three pioneering operations to correct the problem.
Olivia Gillies was born with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), which affects one in 15,000 babies born in the UK.
Her mother Emma, 29, and father Ian, 40, were shocked when they discovered their unborn daughter's condition during a routine scan.
But four years later the couple are preparing to wave Olivia off for her first day at primary school, after the youngster had three operations to reduce the size of her tongue.
Olivia pictured in February 2011, after her first operation in September 2010, and shortly before going back into the operating theatre in March 2011, for the second procedure. It wasn't until Olivia had been through her third operation in March 2012 that doctors were confident her tongue would develop normally
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