Doctors perform surgery on 28-week-old BABY STILL IN THE WOMB!

Doctors had to perform emergency heart surgery on the unborn child.

Doctors at Guangdong General Hospital were forced to perform immediate emergency surgery on an unborn 28-week-old child still in the womb.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Daily Mail explained the child's heart was no larger than the size of a walnut but required life-saving surgery.

On September 21, Doctors used a miniature needle and balloon to help save the child's life.

The mother, only identified by her last name, Xie, was told her unborn child's heart was developing too narrowly.

The heart was unable to accept or push enough blood through itself into the lungs, which would eventually lead to severe complications or death.

The only option to save her baby was to undergo immediate emergency surgery.

Doctors inserted the tiny needle into the child's narrow pulmonary valve to insert a catheter.

They used it to expand the valve slightly and a miniature balloon was slipped along the wire to stretch the valve further.

By expanding the heart, the child showed dramatic improvement by the fourth day and doctors reported increased blood flow in the pulmonary valve.

Surgeries on children still in the womb are becoming more available, with one little girl in Britain benefiting from spinal surgery while still gestating in her mother's womb.

The technology is still new and most countries have yet to try it but soon these kinds of surgeries will be common, helping strong, healthy babies to be born.

Thank you, Lord, for doctors.
Bless the hands that heal
And send hope to the infirm.
Thank you, Father, for your healing graces,
Protection and mercies for Your children.
Amen.

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