A babe in Texas has been " stomach double " after doctorshad antecedently already removedthe developing fetus from the uterus in decree to slay a tumor evolve on the child while in the womb . The good for you baby fille , who has been named Lynlee , was operated on by medic working out of the Texas Children ’s Fetal Center , and is now doing brightly .
Sixteen weeksinto the maternity , the youngster ’s female parent , Mrs Boemer , find out that her unborn child had what is know as a sacrococcygeal teratoma , which is a eccentric of tumor that develop at the fundament bone of the fetus . Around one in every 35,000 unrecorded births are think to be affected by the growths , though in some case the babe is bring to term naturally in the womb before being mesh on . In the pillow slip of Lynlee , however , doctor withdraw a more dramatic approaching .
By the time the surgery pick out place , the neoplasm develop on the foetus had maturate to almost the same size of it as the unborn child itself . Lynlee was given just a 50 percent chance of survival , as the development was diverting so much blood from her it was get her to go into cardiac failure as her tiny trunk struggle to grapple . The mother was given the choice of either letting her unborn child dice , or attempting the surgery .
“ It was an sluttish decision for us : We wanted to give her life sentence , ” Mrs Boemertold CNN .
The military operation took a total of five hours , as the 1 - Ezra Loomis Pound , 3 - ounce foetus was remove from the womb at 23 workweek and 5 day . The tumor turned out to be so large that a “ Brobdingnagian cut ” was postulate to get Lynlee out of the uterus , signify that she “ was hang in the melody ” as the operation was carry on . As Dr Darrell Cass , a phallus of the squad who carried out the OR , explained : “ basically , the fetus is alfresco , like all out , all the amniotic fluid falls out , it ’s actually quite dramatic . ”
weigh in at 5 lb 5 oz , just shy of the normal range for a healthy new born , Lynlee had to wait eight days before give way under the knife again , where physician in the end removed the parts of the tumour that remained at the base of her backbone . Now at menage , Lynlee is “ doing beautifully,”according toDr Cass .
