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A newborn has successfully undergone an operation to remove a sacrococcygeal teratoma tumor at 23 weeks, 5 days into the mother's pregnancy. The mother gave birth to the baby during week 35:
A baby girl from Lewisville, Texas, has been "born" twice after she was taken out of her mother's womb for 20 minutes for life-saving surgery.
At 16 weeks pregnant, Margaret Hawkins Boemer discovered her daughter, Lynlee Hope, had a tumour on her spine.
The mass, known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma, was diverting blood from the foetus - raising the risk of fatal heart failure.
[...] Doctor Darrell Cass of Texas Children's Fetal Centre was one of the team who carried out the surgery. He said the tumour had been so large that a "huge" incision was required to reach it, leaving the baby "hanging out in the air".
Lynlee's heart virtually stopped during the procedure but a heart specialist kept her alive while most of the tumour was removed, he added. The team then placed her back in her mother's womb and sewed her uterus up.
This isn't the first surgery of its kind:
"Baby Boemer is still an infant but is doing beautiful," said Cass, remarking that she is perfectly healthy. His one previous surgery of this kind was also a success. "I think she's about 7 now, and she sings karaoke to Taylor swift[sic] -- she's completely normal," said Cass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @12:59PM
> she will be able to make an informed choice
Will she be shown photos of the lump of malformed body parts that was pretending to be her tail for a few months when she's older? And if she is shown that, will she volunteer to not fling her legs in the air after her prom date? Reversible sterilisation at birth is the best solution, IMHO. Then the "informed choice" is to explicitly un-sterilise herself, so no oopses happen.
You're terribly terribly naive about humans young and old.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:10PM
Forced sterilization has a long, sad history.
I doubt any sterilization techniques effective at birth would be reversible.
(Score: 1) by ewk on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:16PM
Sure... let's just preventative sterilize everyone after birth. Just to prevent any 'oopses'.
And you're calling me naive?? tsk, tsk....
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