October 25, 2016 7:53 AM

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Baby girl in US born twice after life-saving surgery

In US, a baby girl from Lewisville, Texas, has been born twice after she was taken out of her mother's womb for 20 minutes for life-saving surgery. <br/><br/>At 16 weeks pregnant, Margaret Hawkins Boemer discovered her daughter, Lynlee Hope, had a tumour on her spine. <br/><br/>The mass, known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma, was diverting blood from the foetus, raising the risk of fatal heart failure. Baby Lynlee weighed just 1lb 3oz (0.53kg) when surgeons opened the womb. <br/><br/>The tumour and the unborn baby were almost the same size by the time the operation was performed. Lynlee was given a 50 per cent chance of survival.

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