"We were excited to meet him, even if it was only for an hour," Sierra Yoder told The Washington Post. "It was a life-saving procedure," Mark Proctor, neurosurgeon in chief at Boston Children's, told The Post. Alan Cohen, head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said the herniated sac may contain brain, brain membranes and brain fluid. Almost a month since Bentley brain surgery, his mother said, he is now able to hold up his head. That's when the family went to Boston Children's Hospital.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 22, 2016 01:38 UTC