Baby Born 'Twice' at Texas Hospital
HOUSTON, TX — Margaret Boemer was pregnant with twins when she lost one of her babies.
A mother of two, Boemer then received news during a routine ultrasound that her unborn daughter had a rare birth defect called a sacrococcygeal teratoma, or SCT. She was 16 weeks pregnant at the time. The tumor, growing out of the tailbone, sucks the baby's blood and would eventually cause heart failure in the child.
"It was very shocking and scary because we did not know what that long word meant," Boemer said in an interview shared by Texas Children's Hospital.
The tumor is found more often in girls than in boys and only occurs in one out of every 35,000 births. Dr. Darrell Cass, one of the main surgeons on the case, said in an interview with CNN that some of the times the tumor can be taken out after the baby is born, but about half the time it becomes a blood flow problem. Cass explained that the tumor is trying to grow by sucking blood flow from the baby, yet the baby is also trying to grow, "so it becomes a competition."
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