While expecting moms are with their babies every second of the pregnancy, they still can’t wait to see their baby’s little nose, eyes, and chubby cheeks. While they may not be able to see their baby’s face until the delivery, ultrasounds are the next best thing.
Tammy Gonzalez couldn’t wait to see her baby girl when she went in at 17 weeks for her ultrasound, but when the baby came on the screen she noticed a large, round mass by her baby’s mouth. At first, she thought it was just her baby blowing a bubble in the womb, but when she looked up at the doctor’s face, she knew it wasn’t so harmless.
Doctors told Gonzalez that the mass protruding from the roof of the baby’s mouth was a teratoma, a rapidly-growing tumor that would likely cause a miscarriage if the baby wasn’t aborted.
When Gonzalez refused both those options, doctors explained that there was one other possibility, but it was extremely risky since it had never been done before. “I said, ‘I want to do this,'” Gonzalez said as she agreed to the endoscopic surgery. “Let’s do this.”
Dr. Ruben Quintero made a small incision into the sac and cut the stem of the tumor, which fell right off. ‘It was amazing,” Gonzalez said. “It was like a 500-ton weight lifted off of me.”
The tumor remained floating in the amniotic sac for the remainder of the pregnancy, but it shrunk by the time Gonzalez delivered her healthy baby girl. “She’s perfectly fine,” Gonzalez said two years later about her daughter. “She has a tiny scar on the roof of her mouth. She talks; she drinks. She is my little miracle child.”
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