Doctors repair baby's spine in womb; 1st keyhole surgery in UK

In a UK first, doctors have used keyhole surgery to successfully repair the spine of a baby with spina bifida while it was still inside the womb. Sherrie Sharp and her son Jaxson had the operation 27 weeks into the pregnancy. The routine 20-week pregnancy scans showed the baby's spine and spinal cord were not forming correctly.

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