Surgeons removed tumour from mouth of unborn baby

Doctors in Miami have performed the first surgery to remove a tumour from an unborn baby’s mouth.

Tammy Gonzalez was 17 weeks’ pregnant when an ultrasound of her daughter seemed to show the baby blowing a large bubble. It was a large tumour.

Tammy was told she had two options: terminate the pregnancy or wait for the baby to grow to be corrected but risk a rapid rate of growth of the tumour which could result in fatal bleeding.