Twice Born

Introduction to the Doctors and Patients

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.

Introduction to the Doctors and Patients

2m 44s

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    Episode 3

    S1 E3 - 55m 11s

    Lilly undergoes plastic surgery to reshape her face, and Shelly delivers her 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.

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    Episode 2

    S1 E2 - 54m 40s

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

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