Extraordinary Medical Miracle: How An Unborn Baby Saved His Mom’s Life From Inside The Womb
A mother’s life and subsequently that of her unborn baby was saved after a miraculous turn of events in the womb.
The astounding medical emergency began when a 31-year-old French woman who was eight and a half months’ pregnant, presented at the Jeanne de Flandre hospital in the city of Lille in Northern France.
The mother, whose name has been withheld for privacy reasons, was and complaining of severe stomach pain. She had previously had an emergency caesarean at seven months pregnant because of an abnormal foetal heartbeat, so her doctors were careful not to take any chances.
They checked the baby’s heartbeat and even scanned the mother’s own heart to check for possible tears. One of the doctors, Dr. Marion Guckert explained:
”There was no bleeding or contractions, everything seemed normal.”
The doctors administered pain relief drugs but when it had no effect on the woman, the medical practitioners decided to do a uterine scan. Worryingly, the scan showed a rupture in the woman’s uterus, severe enough to put both mother and baby’s lives at risk.
Dr Guckert performed an emergency C-section with his colleague, Dr Charles Garabedian, which revealed a four-inch rupture in the mother’s womb. But they also discovered something incredible: the foetus had managed to stop the rupture from getting worse by positioning its back against the hole, acting like a suction cup.
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The foetus had not only stopped the amniotic fluid from escaping, but saved his mother from life threatening internal bleeding. And because the umbilical cord hadn’t been compressed, he was still able to continue to grow and develop normally.
This was why the doctors hadn’t been able to detect any problems until they did the uterine scan. In effect, the woman’s unborn son had saved her life, as well as his own.
But as a result of its life-saving efforts, the foetus’ back had operated like a suction cup, creating a giant swelling on its back. Dr Guckert admitted:
“This white mass first worried us.”
But thankfully, the swelling soon went down – it was reabsorbed into the baby’s body in a matter of hours, with mum and son both recovering well.
Dr Garabedian told French newspaper Le Monde that the case was ‘extraordinary’.
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