Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in June 2012.
A routine ultrasound led to a startling discovery no mother wants or expects.
Tammy Gonzalez, of Miami, Florida, was undergoing the routine procedure when doctors reportedly spotted what appeared to be a giant bubble being blown just above the baby’s mouth.
“Is that on me or the baby?” Gonzalez asked the doctor.
After further inspection, the doctors realized the amorphous bubble was something called a teratoma. Teratomas are extremely rare and usually fatal tumors that affect roughly 1 in every 100,000 births, Diply notes. Gonzalez’s doctors reportedly recommended she terminate the pregnancy lest she face a potential miscarriage.
But Gonzalez refused, insisting that something could be done to save her baby.
“They told me that type of tumor can grow so fast,” Gonzalez told ABC News. “I said, ‘There must be something we can do.’”
