Operation unborn baby

During a routine check of pregnancy, 38-year-old Michel Fontaine on US doctors have found some kind of seal on the neck of the child. The woman was hospitalized for more detailed diagnostics. It turned out that the baby is growing tumor.
And if he was born in a natural way, it would not have survived as   tumor   closes the air channel. It required a complicated operation. It was attended by 25 physicians, including 10 specialist consultants. Surgeons entered through the abdomen Michel, took out the baby's head and one shoulder only. It was necessary that the baby remained in the womb and continue to receive oxygen from the placenta until the doctor would insert a tube down his throat to help breathing.

"If the boy was born naturally or by caesarean section, the risk is almost instant death would be very large," - says consultant obstetrician and Surabaya Gandhi. By setting a breathing tube, then surgeons began operation oncotomy Which lasted four hours. A tumor the size of an orange was benign.

The next few weeks the little Arthur spent in the pediatric intensive care ventilator. Have written it only three months, and full tube of the windpipe, doctors remove only the day before the first day of the birthday boy.

"Every day I look at my boy and can not believe his luck - says Michel Fontaine. - We are still unable to return home with him." Now care about Arthur exhibit not only father and mother, and older sisters baby.

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