Elijah’s Story: A Life Saved Before Birth

If not for this rare operation, done before Elijah’s birth to stop the tumor from smothering his heart and right lung, Elijah never would have walked the earth

, --December 10, 2014

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DE PERE, Wis.—Eight weeks before he was born, Elijah Leffingwell met the outside world.
On Sept. 21, 2012, at 25 weeks, Elijah was partially removed from his mother’s womb so surgeons could surgically remove a tumor the size of an orange from his left lung. Midway through the surgery, his heart stopped. The doctors massaged it back to life and Elijah went back inside his mom’s womb. More...

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