It all began 6 months ago, when Limor was 20 weeks pregnant. During a routine test, the doctors told her that her baby had a very rare problem. The doctors recommended that she end the pregnancy. The fetus had a hernia in his diaphragm which could impact the development of his lungs.
Yosef Chaim’s story has a happy ending, but it was not always clear, as Linda Lovitch reports for Jerusalem Online:
“Usually, with this type of defect, the baby’s lungs are very small,” explains Dr. Gialchinsky, a prenatal specialist in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. “The baby will have great difficulty breathing after we cut the umbilical cord. It is impossible to give them respiration. They usually die within minutes after birth.”
Limor and her husband Nir refused to have an abortion on religious grounds.
Luckily, their rov recommended that they see Dr. Gialchinsky, who repairs natal defects with an instrument called the “fetoscope,” which has a tiny camera on its edge.
“Through the stomach’s wall you enter the womb,” he explained. “There is a small light at the end. So, you can see what is happening inside the uterus.”
These films are straight from the womb, not images like an ultrasound.
“There are another 3 tubes, through which you can insert other instruments like needles,” says the doctor.
Dr. Gialchinsky carefully inserts the fetoscope into the fetus’ mouth. He leaves a small balloon in his trachea which will neutralize the defect in the diaphragm allowing the lungs to develop.
“In order to prevent any pain or the fetus moving,” adds Dr. Gialchinsky, “We inject a pain killer into his muscle or leg.”
After the lungs have developed, the balloon must be removed. Once again, the fetoscope goes into the fetus’ mouth, the balloon is destroyed and Dr. Gialchinsky removes all remnants with tiny tweezers.
Dr. Gialchinsky is the only doctor in Israel who knows how to perform this procedure after studying two years in London. There are only 30 doctors in the world who know how to do this.
(c) 2016 Jerusalem Online
{Matzav.com Israel}
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Why is this on your “frum” site
There are a few types of fetal surgeries, around for years already. The “news” here is perhaps that this procedure was done for the first time in Yerushalayim or Israel, but fetal surgery is more than a decade old….
But yet Hillary has no problem endorsing partial birth abortion. What a wicked lady! She represents evil in this world and we have to make sure she NEVER becomes President.