Twice Born

This episode presents an intimate view of both Lilly’s plastic surgery procedure and Bobby and Shelly’s delivery of their baby girl, Luelle. Geneva and Reggie, a couple from North Carolina, visit the Children's Hospital to seek help for their unborn child who has developed a lower urinary tract obstruction.

Lilly, previously diagnosed with an aggressive tumor in utero that threatened her ability to breathe or eat, heads home from the hospital with her mom, Lesly. Then, she undergoes plastic surgery to reshape her face.

Shelly and Bobby make the hospital their home when a placental abruption detaches the placenta from the wall of the uterus, creating concerns for mom and baby.

Lesly anxiously reunites with baby Lilly in intensive care after the plastic surgery procedure to reshape her mouth and face. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the private life of Dr. N. Scott Adzick, surgeon-in-chief of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the founder and director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.

Geneva and Reggie travel from North Carolina after their unborn child develops a life-threatening urinary tract obstruction.

Doctors remove the remainder of Lilly’s tumor while couple Tina and Brion receive devastating news about their unborn twins. As Shelly and the baby undergo a procedure to repair the fetus’s spine, this episode offers a close-up look at surgery on a baby in the womb — the first time ever in a major television broadcast.

Through the unique access of the series’ camera crew, take a close-up look at this surgery on a baby in the womb. Watch as surgeons attempt to repair an opening in the baby’s spine caused by a condition known as spina bifida. Successful intervention at this point can lessen the nerve damage caused by the disease and improve the baby’s chances for a healthier, more functional life.

When their unborn twins are diagnosed with Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, Tina and Brion embark on an urgent visit to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, desperate to save their babies’ lives.

During the first episode, Dr. Holly Hedrick performs a rare EXIT procedure and attempts to remove a tumor from a fetus while it is still attached to her mother. Meanwhile, couple Bobby and Shelly anxiously wait to find out if they are candidates for fetal surgery to repair their baby’s spine.

Meet some of the courageous doctors and their patients, whose lives intersect in the Special Delivery Unit at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where operations are performed on babies still inside their mothers’ wombs. Get a glimpse of both the dramatic narrative and scientific fact served up by this groundbreaking series.

Lesly, a young, single mother, journeys to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from California because her baby has developed an aggressive tumor in utero that threatens its ability to breathe or eat.

With exclusive access to the elite Special Delivery Unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, (where the production crew was embedded for 15 months), watch as expecting parents face a gut-wrenching decision: should they take a leap of faith to repair birth defects with pre-natal surgery, even if it means they might lose their child?