Lynlee Boemer, a children who have two birthdays and this type of case is one-in-a-billion in the world. How did she get such a sweet deal? Well, technically she was born twice. Around 16-weeks into her pregnancy, mother Margaret Boemer was told by doctors that her child had a tumor in her tailbone.
This Baby Was Born Twice For An Operation And Then Put Back In To Be Born Again
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On 27th October 2016
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#1 This is the case!
Mother Margaret was told that although a tumor is found in around 30-70,000 births, little Lynlee didn't stand much of a chance because the fetus and the tumor were competing for blood and it will be very dangerous for newborn child. She was given two choices terminate the pregnancy, or attempt a very risky surgery to remove the baby and operate.
#2 Margaret explained the condition when Doctor told her about this:
She said, "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."
And she added, "And it was very shocking and scary, because we didn't know what that long word meant or what diagnosis that would bring."
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#3 Brave Mother Won!
Margaret decided to attempt the risky surgery, and 12 weeks before the actual delivery, the 1lb 3oz was 'born' via c-section so that doctors could perform surgery to remove the tumor. Lynlee was in the world for about 20 minutes before doctors had to put her back and sew up the mother's uterus so she could cook for a little longer.
A team of doctors slowed the baby's heartrate and kept her alive while another team worked on removing as much of the tumor as possible with the limited time they had.
Twelve weeks later, Lynlee was born a second and final time by c-section, weighing a much healthier 5lb 5oz.
At eight days old, Lynlee went under the knife again to remove sections of the tumor that were left over. But several weeks on, Lynlee has been allowed to go home.
#4 Dr Darrell Cass said about the surgery:
This was very groundbreaking surgery and he added, "some instances, the tumour wins and the heart just can't keep up and the heart goes into failure and the baby dies."
"Lynlee didn't have much of a chance. At 23 weeks, the tumour was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumour 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."
"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."
