An emergency surgery was performed at 23 weeks and 5 days of pregnancy.
A baby girl was born ‘twice’ at Texas Children’s Hospital, after being taken out of her mother’s womb for 20 minutes to take out a tumor.
Margaret Boemer from Lewisville, Texas was 16 weeks pregnant with her third child when a routine ultrasound revealed a growth on the baby’s tailbone.
“It was a choice of allowing her tumor to take over her body or giving her a chance at life,” First Coast News quoted the mother.
An emergency surgery was performed at 23 weeks and 5 days of pregnancy, when the tumor was almost bigger than the baby herself.
Darrell Cass and Oluyinka Olutove , co-directors of Texas Children’s Foetal Centre, operated for about five hours and the team successfully removed the tumor.
After finishing their operation, the surgeons placed the baby back inside the womb and sewed her mother’s uterus shut.
On June 6, 2016 at 36 weeks, the baby girl was born for the second time via C-section. Boemer and her partner named the child LynLee Hope after both their grandmothers. At eight days old, Lynee was operated again to remove the rest of the tumor.
“How exciting that she made it through and not only made it through but done so well and we are very thankful for the doctors,” said Boemer.