If that headlines made your eyes go crossed, you’re not alone.

This phenomenal story is all thanks to great doctors and the medical technology they have access to. Medical professionals have allowed people to follow their pregnancy with the help of imaging technology for quite a while. You can see the development of a fetus during all stages of pregnancy using this technology.

Does the fetus have hands, fingers, toes? We can see in real-time if there is an abnormal growth with an unborn child.

3D ultrasounds have been available for some time and you can get a good look at many details of a fetus by using one. That technology has been surpassed with 4D ultrasounds now. They can reveal an even clearer picture and give more details without harming the unborn.

For mom Margaret Boemer of Plano, Texas she discovered during a routine ultrasound that at 16 months her baby Lynlee had an abnormal tumor growing from her tail bone. When doctors confirmed and officially diagnosed the baby as having a sacrococcygeal teratoma, Margaret was heart-broken.

Dr. Darrell Cass, a pediatric surgeon at the Texas Children’s Fetal Center, explained that these tumors are extremely rare, but it is the most common treatable tumor on a newborn.

“Sometimes these tumors can be well tolerated in the fetus [but] her heart showed signs of starting to fail.”

Dr. Cass explained to Margaret that the tumor was going to complicate blood flow for the baby. The tumor would compete with her heart and try to re-direct the blood to the tumor and not through her body like it should. Her little heart was working twice as hard because of this and Dr. Cassed feared she would not make it to term.

Margaret’s pregnancy was already unique before this. Lynlee was a twin but her sibling died while in utero. She had a tough case that not many were willing to take on.

But the team Dr. Cass assembled at the Texas Children’s Fetal Center were ready to take on the odds. They knew they would have to remove the tumor to give Lynlee a chance at survival. So at 23 weeks and 5 days into the pregnancy, surgeons would remove the fetus from the mother’s womb and remove the tumor.

Before Lynlee’s surgery the procedure had only been carried out successfully twice, the doctor said.

“It’s been unsuccessful many times. A lot can go wrong and the fetus can die after, or during the surgery.”

Shockingly the fetus’s heart did stop beating but they were able to resuscitate her during the surgery.

Lynlee was out of her mother for 20 minutes while the team removed the tumor. They gently placed her back inside her mother and stitched up the womb. There she would continue to grow til term and be delivered like a normal pregnancy.

There were many complications that could have arisen during the surgery but fortunately, none of the worst-case scenarios occurred.

Once determined that the pregnancy was back on track, Margaret carried to term and delivered baby Lynlee again. Marking the second time in one pregnancy that the baby left the womb.

8 days after the birth, Lynlee needed one more surgery to remove the final part of the tumor. She was only then to be expected to live a normal life. At her 4-month check-up she was given great news:

“She’s completely cured. She’s going to be a normal child. She’ll go to kindergarten with her friends. That is incredibly rare.”

Continuing down the road, Lynlee has experienced some complications with her motor skills as well as some gastrointestinal and neurological issues that did require some treatment. Overall she is an absolute miracle!

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Source: Inside Edition