Special surgery to welcome a newborn baby from a cancer mother: Ready to give up all the life to the unborn baby

Information on Tuoi Tre Newspaper, on May 22, the Central K Hospital doctors and the Central Obstetrics Hospital had surgery to get the baby at the 31st week for pregnant woman Nguyen Thi L. (28 years old, in Ha Male) suffering from terminal breast cancer, metastatic. Two medical doctors and doctors from the Central Obstetrics Hospital went to the hospital room of K Hospital to perform a cesarean section.

When he was born, An was quickly taken to an ambulance to transfer to the Center for Newborn Care and Treatment of the National Obstetrics Hospital. Her mother continued to stay at the Hospital K when the cancer of the evil monster was in a late stage.

The operation took place very stressfully, because of the risk of losing both mother and child, but the crying of a boy named Do Binh An weighed 1.5 kg, causing the young mother to carry the disease and surgery crew to tears. . Immediately, the baby was received by emergency doctors in the hospital for incubation and transferred to the Central Obstetrics Hospital. The rest of the surgical crew continued to complete the operation and then continued to treat the mother.

According to the patient's family, when the fetus was 8 weeks old, Ms. L. showed a lump in the breast, but only thought it was a sign of normal milk inflammation during pregnancy so the subjective did not visit. When there is a lot of cough, cough all day, tired body, more chest area, lymph nodes appear in the shoulder, 2 legs are fit, aching, Ms. L. has just come to K Hospital for examination. The results of patients diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer metastasized. At that time, the new fetus was in the 4th month of pregnancy.

The K Hospital doctor collaborated with the oncologist for the oncology and pregnancy counseling for patients L. and their families to consider choosing to make the treatment process more effective. However, after that, Mrs. L. decided to keep her baby in the hope of trying to hold out long enough for her to be healthy. Faced with the determination of the mother, doctors of K Hospital consulted the hospital with experts of 103 Military Hospital, Central Obstetrics Hospital in combination with periodic antenatal care, assessing the development of the fetus. pediatric All medicines used are carefully considered by doctors of obstetrics and oncology so as not to affect the fetus too much.

After 6 weeks of treatment, patients with shortness of breath, dense lymph nodes, more than 2 months of hospitalization, patients could not breathe, but had to sit 24 hours a day, only 2 hours of sleep each day, tired of pain due to Breast cancer metastasized bone, lung .

Wish to be safe

According to Dr. Cuong, the most difficult thing is for Mrs. L.'s operation, which is the risk of uterine atony and bleeding during surgery, which may require the uterus to be removed to save her mother. The surgery must proceed quickly. Although he has been in the profession for many years, with anesthesia, he has anesthetized all the specialists, with 8 doctors and midwives of the Central Obstetrics Hospital, but Mr. Cuong still experiences a memorable operation in his life. For the first time, he gave birth when the patient sat .

"When the baby was born, the baby cried loudly, weighed about 1.6 kg, was immediately taken to an ambulance car for the Newborn Care and Treatment Center of the Central Obstetrics Hospital. Previously, Vietnamese doctors difficulty if the baby was born prematurely (pregnancy less than 30 weeks), but now we have successfully raised babies weighing less than 500gr, less than 25 weeks of pregnancy. very good clothes "- Mr. Cuong said.

According to Dr. Cuong, the surgery this afternoon took place smoothly, Ms. L. had good bleeding. In the coming days this is the stage of chemical treatment, surgery to remove the tumor . A very long way ahead. A few years ago, once a mother of a police officer decided to suspend cancer treatment to nourish her life, she passed away when her son was less than a month old.

"Hope L.'s family will welcome both mother and baby home" - Mr. Cuong said, after finishing a special operation in his life, to open a new life named Binh An.

Before that, in 2016, the Central Hospital and Central Obstetrics Hospital also coordinated to treat Ms. Dau Thi Huyen Tr., the mother with extraordinary strength, refused treatment to give birth to baby Bear. After giving birth to a son for nearly a month, Ms. Tr. died of late-stage lung cancer. Currently, the baby Bear is 3 years old, the baby grows healthy.