Dead Girl Brought Back To Life By Blowing Raspberries On Her Tummy.

#1 Poppy Smith was born on December 17, 2014 in Gullane, Scotland.

She came into the world at 29 weeks of gestation, weighing just two pounds.

#2 The baby girl spent the first three months of her life in the neonatal ward.

When she went home to her parents Stephen, 34, and Amy, 31. Poppy also has older sister Elisha and big brother Alfie.

#3 In addition to being premature, Poppy was also born with Moebius syndrome.

Moebius syndrome is a rare neurological condition affecting facial muscles. The inability to smile, frown, pucker up the lips, or the inability to raise the eyebrows are common traits.

#4 What causes Moebius syndrome is unknown.

The severity of this syndrome varies from patient to patient.

#5 Those with Moebius syndrome are often described as having a mask expression.

A lot of these kids have a difficult time eating and breathing.

#6 Doctors warned Poppy's parents that their daughter may never talk or walk.

"They said that she might not walk or talk, but she started walking at 15 months, which is quite average for a premature baby. It was amazing to see her doing all those things," Stephen reveals.

#7 The little girl was defying the odds.

"We managed to get her off her feeding tube around her first birthday and throughout 2016, she was just getting better every day," Stephen says.

#8 Although she had a respiratory and cardiac arrest by age one, Poppy was doing well.

Days before Poppy turned two, her mom noticed something was off.

#9 Amy went into Poppy's room to wake her toddler up but the girl wouldn't respond.

"We could feel her heartbeat, but she was unresponsive. We knew there was something seriously wrong," Stephen recalls. "She was breathing but she was sort of gasping for air."

#10 She was taken to her local hospital but was transferred to the more specialised Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.

Within two days, she seemed to be improving, prompting doctors to take her off the ventilator.

#11 That was short-lived as things progressed for the worse rather quickly.

"Her eyes were starting to roll to the back of her head. A chest x-ray showed that her lungs were full of fluid and she had another respiratory arrest," Stephen says.

#12 "That night she started to develop twitches and seizures. She was deteriorating fast," he says.

But after an MRI, Stephen and Amy were given the devastating news. "When she came back from the scan, doctors took us into a side room and said she had severe hypoxic brain damage," Stephen shares. "I asked if she was going to walk or talk again, but they said they didn't even know if she was going to survive. When it started to sink it, it was heartbreaking." Poppy was again transferred to The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.

"She couldn't feel anything and wasn't responding to a torch being shone in her eyes," Stephen says.

"We held her, but she was just staring right through us. I've never felt pain like that in my life. The heartache was unreal," he admits.

#13 While the family was trying to make sense of what was happening, three local musicians recorded an album to raise funds for Poppy.

Dads Orlando Mason, James Ingham, and Martin White got into talking and playing music one night when the idea popped up. "At first when Orlando suggested recording a festive CD I assumed he meant in time for Christmas next year," James says. But time was of the essence and they wanted to help the family immediately.

#14 The album includes, "Jingle Bells," sung by the children that go to school with the Smith kids.

James says, "he suggested getting the entire primary school to sing on one of the tracks too, just to keep things challenging."

#15 The family went to mass on Christmas eve, lighting candles for her, and asking a priest to visit their daughter.

On Christmas Day, Elisha, 12, leaned over her sister and did something silly and unexpected. "That was the amazing moment when she laughed, as Macey blew a raspberry on her belly," Stephen shares.

#16 It was astonishing. We found out afterwards that it wasn't uncommon for people in this state to show emotion but to us,

it seemed like she was responding. says Stephen who admits they all felt hopeful afterwards.

Poppy didn't just laugh, she also responded in other ways. "Then there were little twitches on her arms and legs," Stephen says. "Doctors said it could be spinal reflexes, but I felt like it was so much more."

#17 Slowly Poppy began to make progress.

She re-learned to speak to the shock of doctors.

#18 She also started crawling again and is now learning to walk again.

"We couldn't believe it. It's been just eight weeks. It's incredible. She's progressed so much," Stephen admits.

#19 The doctors are baffled. They say that she shouldn't be doing what she is doing. They are so glad she is, but they didn't think she would.

She's proving them all wrong, Stephen admits.

The family is trying to raise money to fly Poppy to the Cosmo suit Rehabilitation Unit in Italy. "We want to get more physio for her earlier rather than later because we think the sooner we do, the more of her mobility we can save," her dad says. "She is still a little bit shaky, but I think she will be able to walk on her own and she's already come so far. We just want to raise money to try and get her a bit more help and we don't want to waste any time."