Mom Risks Her Life Refusing to Abort Unborn Baby With Spina Bifida Now a Thriving 1-Year-Old
A mom who risked her life to bear a child with spina bifida looks back on a road “riddled with uncertainty” and knows she made the right choice in the face of pressure, and ridicule from doctors urging her to abort.
Her beloved baby girl, now 1 year old, continues to defy the odds.
Surviving heart failure after giving birth to her third baby, then-25-year-old Victoria Pampanin Reyes was warned that she couldn’t bear children again: the risk of relapse was too high.
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Operating on a fetus involves making an incision in the mom s belly, then opening up the womb, draining some amniotic fluid and gently inflating the uterus with warmed and humidified carbon dioxide.
Pediatric neurosurgeon Charles Stevenson has been involved with every one of the 100 fetal spina bifida surgeries at Children s. He and his team strive to make the procedure continually safer. The procedure is a little unique if you think about it, he says. For most surgeries, there s only one patient. But for this surgery there are two patients. But from an ethical standpoint, only one of them can derive direct benefit, right? We re putting two individuals at risk but only one will gain, and so there s always an onus on us to make the procedure as safe as possible for the mom herself.
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A Scots mum gave birth in her living room while her entire family were in the house and plumbers fitted her new washing machine next door.