A baby girl was taken out of her mother's womb 12 weeks before she was actually born.
Lynlee Boemer was removed so that surgeons could perform a life-saving operation to get rid of a tumour from her tailbone.
During a standard scan at 16 weeks, her mother, Margaret Boemer, was told that she would need to have the surgery.
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According to Metro, they removed 1lb 3oz Lynlee for 20 minutes during a five-hour operation. They then put her back and sewed up Margaret's uterus.
Twelve weeks later, Lynlee was born through a caesarean section weighing 5lb 5oz.
Mrs Boemer, from Plano, Texas, said: "They saw something on the scan, and the doctor came in and told us that there was something seriously wrong with our baby and that she had a sacrococcygeal teratoma.
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"And it was very shocking and scary, because we didn't know what that long word meant or what diagnosis that would bring."
One of the doctors, Dr Cass, was involved in the procedure. He told CNN: "In some instances, the tumour wins and the heart just can't keep up and the heart goes into failure and the baby dies.
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"LynLee didn't have much of a chance. At 23 weeks, the tumour was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumour to take over her body or giving her a chance at life.
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"It was an easy decision for us: We wanted to give her life."
Dr Cass then added: "It's kind of a miracle you're able to open the uterus like that and seal it all back and the whole thing works."
So she gets two birthdays now, right?
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