By Janine Yaqoob PUBLISHED: 07:03 EST, 30 December 2012 | UPDATED: 23:28 EST, 31 December 2012 A baby boy who underwent open heart surgery when he was just a few days old has defied doctors' predictions and made it home for his first Christmas. Little Alfie Donnelly was just four days old when he was diagnosed with a number of life-threatening heart defects. Doctors warned his parents, Claire and Anthony, that Alfie had zero chance of survival without a complicated operation to re-plumb his tiny heart - which would leave him with a high risk of brain damage.
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Little Alfie Donnelly was diagnosed with life-threatening heart defects
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Doctors said his only chance of survival would be a complicated seven-hour operation
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Parents Claire and Anthony, from Birmingham, were told it would be a 'miracle' if he survived
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After a miraculous recovery Alfie made it home for Christmas
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