14 year old Elisa Bellandi has come to terms with the knowledge that not only was she a 'mistake' baby, conceived when her mother had already passed 40, but that she survived both a miscarriage and a failed abortion.
In a case that has shocked Italy, her parents are suing the hospital claiming that a botched operation caused 'psychological trauma' to Elisa's mother and father.
Giuseppe and Aurora Bellandi, who live in the Italian beach town of Rimini with Elisa, are demanding £700,000 (€1m) in compensation for not just the psychological trauma of having a second child, but also the material deprivation it caused to their lifestyle.