By Claire Bates PUBLISHED: 06:58 EST, 15 October 2012 | UPDATED: 08:43 EST, 15 October 2012 A three-year-old boy who suffered a massive stroke in the womb has stunned doctors by learning to walk, talk and see in time for his first day at nursery. Liam Maule was delivered six weeks early in August 2009 after midwives could not find his heartbeat.While twin sister Laura was born healthy, Liam had experienced massive bleeding in the left side of his brain and was severely brain damaged. The stroke could have killed an adult and mother Rosie, 34, and father Jason, 37, from Swindon, were warned he would not develop normally.
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Mother told she had to prepare to let her son go, after he suffered a brain bleed five days before he was born
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Doctors said he was unlikely to ever walk or see, but Liam achieved both milestones by the age of three
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Children up to seven years old have greater brain plasticity so can swap brain functions from one side to the other following a stroke
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@placeholder has been advised that Liam, who needs constant care and medication to control his various health conditions, is unlikely to live beyond 30 years old.