Twice Born

This gripping mini-series takes an intimate, inside look at The Special Delivery Unit at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where rare surgeries are done on babies still inside their mothers' wombs.

Follow several families from around the country as they go through the emotional process of learning about medical challenges facing their unborn children, assessing the options of prenatal surgery and making decisions once their options are clear.

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?

After the EXIT procedure and a second surgery to debulk her tumor, baby Lilly still requires medical care and must remain at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for months. Watch what life is like for Lesly and other parents who cannot bring their babies home from the hospital immediately after birth.