Did any of you been watching IN THE WOMB? It's on Thursday nights after Hot Property on Channel 9. Because I have been following this current series of the Block, I have seen the advertisements and thought I would watch it for the first time last night to just see what it's really like. In an hour they showed four different cases dealing with pregnant women. These are known as miracle babies!!
CASE ONE showed where a pregnancy happened outside the women's womb. It's one in a million for a baby to survive full term in this situation The mother had to give birth 4 weeks early to avoid complications at full term. The baby did survive but it had some abnormal complications at the hip which required surgery.
CASE TWO had a pregnant women with six babies. No...they weren't naturally conceived. The babies arrived at 28 weeks gestation. One of the baby was that small it could can wear a male's wedding ring on her wrist.
CASE THREE had a foetal baby with a cancerous tumour on her tail bone. This cancer was fast moving by the time the mother was half way into the pregnancy. The medical profession operated on the baby by removing part of the baby out of the womb to remove the huge tumour. The baby survived!!
CASE FOUR had an unborn baby with one lung not forming so the medical profession added a balloon on a long needle via the mother's womb into the baby's mouth. Apparently the balloon stopped the liquid on one side to help the lung formed. It worked!! Once the lung was formed they defated the balloon by using the similar situation again. After the baby was born they had to monitor the baby for two months.
After watching this episode I am so amazed on how technology in medicine is now so advance. The medical team can even operate on a baby while the baby's is still in the womb of its mother.
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