In 2016, partner surgeons Dr Darrell Cass & Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye successfully operated on a 23 week old baby by removing her from the mother’s womb, removing a tumour and then replacing her back in the womb. She was born a second time, healthy and on time.

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image showing In 2016, partner surgeons Dr Darrell Cass & Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye successfully operated on a 23 week old baby by removing her from the mother’s womb, removing a tumour and then replacing her back in the womb. She was born a second time, healthy and on time.

JLHumor on June 11st, 2020 at 15:36 UTC »

Could you imagine being the mother and having him explain what he plans on doing and at the end all you can say is... Okay.

Ez_P on June 11st, 2020 at 16:12 UTC »

So when’s the baby’s birthday?

TooShiftyForYou on June 11st, 2020 at 16:39 UTC »

Although other doctors had advised her to terminate the pregnancy, Cass and his team told her about another possibility: fetal surgery. This option, though, would not be an easy road. Even worse, her baby's chances of survival would be grim.

"LynLee didn't have much of a chance," Boemer said. "At 23 weeks, the tumor was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumor 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."

Goodness, what a blessing from these surgeons.