There are some babies who show phenomenal bravery before the can even speak – and for others, it shows up before they are even born.

 

This is true of little Lynlee Hope Boemer, who has made headlines around the world after being born twice.

 

Lynlee, who is now four months old, survived invasive foetal surgery which saw her taken ‘essentially outside’ of her mother’s body – before being placed back in, to be born weeks later.

 

 

Mum Margaret was devastated when, 16 weeks into her pregnancy, an ultrasound revealed that her unborn daughter had sacrococcygeal teratoma.

 

This condition, which affects every one-in-35,000 babies, arises where a tumour begins to develop in the baby’s tailbone.

 

With the tumour sucking up the baby’s vital blood supply, there was a very real chance that Lynlee could have died. Indeed, medics advised Margaret to terminate the pregnancy; she was, however, insistent on giving her baby a chance.

 

 

Instead, doctors at the Texas Children’s Foetal Centre performed foetal surgery at 23 weeks into the pregnancy, when Lynlee showed signs of going into cardiac arrest.

 

During the five-hour procedure, in which Lynlee was essentially taken out of Margaret’s body, the surgeons managed to remove the majority of the tumour. Little Lynlee was then placed back inside of her mother’s womb.

 

At 36 weeks, in June, Lynlee was safely delivered – for the second time – to the Boemers.

 

 

Lynlee immediately underwent surgery to remove the remainder of the tumour and, after recovering in intensive care, she was finally allowed to make the journey home.

 

The tot is now said to be thriving.

 

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