UK Baby Has Spina Bifida Successfully Repaired in the Womb After Mother Rejects Option to Abort
(BBC) — An unborn baby has had surgery on her spine while she was still in her mother’s womb. Bethan Simpson, 26, from Maldon, Essex, was told her unborn daughter Eloise had spina bifida at her 20-week scan. Mrs. Simpson has become one of the first mothers in the UK to undergo the pioneering “fetal repair” surgery. During a four-hour operation her womb was…
