When mom Margaret Boemer went in for her 16 week sonogram check-up, she didn’t think they would find anything wrong with her baby girl. But as soon as the appointment began, doctors saw something strange on the baby’s sonogram.
"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," Margaret said. "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. And the tumor only happens in roughly 35,000 births.
With Margaret and baby LynLee, the only way to save her was emergency surgery where she would be born twice. Her tumor was growing so large that it was bigger than LynLee was at 23 weeks old.
Her options for survival were incredibly disheartening, but Margaret would not terminate her pregnancy. So Dr. Darrell Cass, co-director of Texas Children's Fetal Center performed the first surgery when LynLee was just 23 weeks and 5 days old.
LynLee’s legs and torso were taken out of her mother’s womb so the tumor could be removed, then she was placed back inside with the hope that the pregnancy would continue naturally until the original due date.
Margaret was placed on bedrest for the rest of her pregnancy, but she says everything she did was completely worth the pain. And miraculously, LynLee was born on June 6, 2016 at full term.
At eight days old, she had another surgery to remove the rest of her tumor. She was in the NICU for weeks, but she was finally allowed to go home with no complications.
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Source: Baby is 'born twice' at Texas hospital by ReutersNews on Rumble
