A surprising finding that no mother wants or expects was made during a routine ultrasound. According to reports, doctors noticed what looked like a huge bubble being inflated just over the baby’s mouth as Tammy Gonzalez of Miami, Florida, was having the standard operation done.

“Is that the baby’s fault or mine?” Gonzalez questioned the physician.

Upon closer examination, the physicians determined that the amorphous bubble was a teratoma. About 1 in 100,000 infants are affected by teratomas, which are incredibly uncommon and typically fatal tumors, according to Diply. According to reports, Gonzalez’s doctors advised her to discontinue the pregnancy in order to prevent a miscarriage.

Gonzalez insisted that something could be done to preserve her child, but she declined.

Gonzalez told ABC News, “They told me that type of tumor can grow so fast.” “There must be something we can do,” I said.

Thank goodness, she discovered endoscopic surgery, a treatment that had never been tried before. “Let’s do this,” was her straightforward reaction when confronted with that dangerous process.

The procedure was carried out for the first time by Dr. Ruben Quintero, head of the Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Fetal Therapy Center in Miami. He made a quarter-inch cut in Gonzalez’s abdomen and inserted a tiny camera and surgical instruments into the amniotic sac. Gonzalez was conscious during the entire process.

“The local anesthetic prevented me from feeling the incision, but I could feel the tube entering the sac,” she remarked. “It was like a balloon popping.”

Quintero allegedly used the camera to get a close-up look at the tumor and calculate the danger of removing it.

“It was a pivotal moment,” the physician stated. “We proceeded to cut the stem, and the tumor indeed fell out immediately.”

Gonzalez expressed relief when she saw the tumor on the ultrasound move away from her baby’s face.

“It was incredible,” she continued. “I felt as though a 500-ton weight had been removed from me.”

The tumor stayed floating in the womb until the actual delivery four months later because it was too large to be removed through the amniotic cell sac. It had considerably shrunk by then.
Regarding her daughter Leyna, Gonzalez stated, “She’s doing just fine.” On the roof of her lips, there is a small scar. She drinks and speaks. My little miracle child is her.