Margaret Boemer went for a routine ultrasound 16 weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. She quickly found out that things were far from routine.
"They saw something on the scan, and the doctor came in and told us that there was something seriously wrong with our baby and that she had a sacrococcygeal teratoma," the Plano, mom said in an interview. "And it was very shocking and scary, because we didn't know what that long word meant or what diagnosis that would bring."
Sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumor that develops before birth and grows from a baby's coccyx, the tailbone.
Unfortunately, this was not the first bad news of Boemer's pregnancy. Originally, she had been pregnant with twins, but lost one of the babies before her second trimester.
Cass explained that the tumor is trying to grow by sucking blood flow from the baby, yet the baby is also trying to grow, too "so it becomes a competition."
"And in some instances, the tumor wins and the heart just can't keep up and the heart goes into failure and the baby dies," said Cass.
With a large tumor stealing the blood supply, Boemer's fetus was becoming more ill each day, doctors explained to the expectant mother. Something had to be done.
Although other doctors had advised her to terminate the pregnancy, Cass and his team told her about another possibility: fetal surgery. This option, though, would not be an easy road. Even worse, her baby's chances of survival would be grim.
"LynLee didn't have much of a chance," Boemer said. "At 23 weeks, the tumor was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumor to take over her body or giving her a chance at life.
"It was an easy decision for us: We wanted to give her life."
'Kind of a miracle'
She was 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant, when Cass performed the emergency fetal surgery. By this time, the tumor was nearly larger than the fetus.
Cass and Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, his partner surgeon, operated for about five hours.
During the surgery, LynLee's heart slowed down to an incredibly low rate. "It basically stopped,"
The surgical team removed the bulk of the tumor. When they finished their operation, the surgeons placed LynLee back inside the womb and sewed her mother's uterus shut.
"It's kind of a miracle you're able to open the uterus like that and seal it all back and the whole thing works," said Cass.
Boemer was on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. Despite her pain, she marshaled her strength and made it another 12 weeks to nearly 36 weeks -- full term -- when Lynlee Hope was born for the second time via C-section on June 6.

The little fighter, named for both her grandmothers, weighed 5 pounds and 5 ounces.

SOURCE: http://www.changeasoul.org/index.php?topic=297.0

Beautiful!

God bless Science.

Ohhhhhh! Thank you Lord!

She was really born twice.

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bukatyne:
Beautiful!

God bless Science.

Science is modern Miracle.

White magic

Anytime i read such i cry cos such situations in nigeria would have simply meant that the baby would just have to die without hope. Not that we dont have the best brains,no,after all,a nigerian was the co- surgeon in this success story. The problem we have here is the medical facilities. Given similar facilities,our nigerian medical practitioners would perform similar and greater feats.
Sadly, some govt hospitals make budgetary request for such facilities in their budget proposal to the govt but when the budget is approved and funds disbursed to them, the CMD and the CIMAC of the hospital will just share the money and wait for the next year's budget to resubmit it.

This is incredible!


Born twice indeed!



Or better still born again, since the baby has been born before and now born again.

eyeview:
Anytime i read such i cry cos such situations in nigeria would have simply meant that the baby would just have to die without hope. Not that we dont have the best brains,no,after all,a nigerian was the co- surgeon in this success story. The problem we have here is the medical facilities. Given similar facilities,our nigerian medical practitioners would perform similar and greater feats.
Sadly, some govt hospitals make budgetary request for such facilities in their budget proposal to the govt but when the budget is approved and funds disbursed to them, the CMD and the CIMAC of the hospital will just share the money and wait for the next year's budget to resubmit it.

That is why when those looters have ordinary headache, they run abroad. They know the extent of their damages in the health and education sectors.

Wow!!!!! Amazing

Absolutely awesome

shout to all the ladies that can do the undoable just to bring us fortg.

Wow

Wow! Wonderful.

Such a fine and healthy baby!

I think it's amazing that we are able to do that. The human race is highly evolved. It's simply amazing

Woow!!kudos to emerging medical science and art that made this possible.

This is amazing....

Wow