Unborn baby’s legs saved

AUSTRALIAN surgeons saved the leg of an unborn baby girl by operating when her mother was just 22 weeks pregnant, in what may be the earliest in-utero surgery of its kind in the world.

Baby Leah had a rare condition, amniotic band

syndrome, in which stray bands of tissue wrap themselves around the developing foetus’s limbs or digits, in this case both her legs, and cut off blood flow.