Docs Remove Fetus From Mom's Womb, Return Unborn Baby To Uterus After Rare Surgery

A young woman in Florida is set to have the rare experience of giving birth to her baby twice. 23-year-old Jaiden Ashlea gave birth to her son last week, and the doctors inserted the baby back into her womb for her to deliver him again in July.

Ashlea, from Jacksonville, underwent a preterm C-section for an antenatal surgery after her unborn child was diagnosed with spina bifida, a neural tube defect that can lead to learning and developmental disabilities, and paralysis, NY Post reported.

Ashlea and her fiancé Noah Detrick, 23, were struck by the devastating diagnosis that their first child would be born "brain dead" when she went for a prenatal anatomy scan at 18 weeks of her pregnancy in March.

"I was in shock. I couldn’t even speak when the doctor was telling us this. I remember saying to myself, ‘This isn’t real, this isn’t happening," Ashlea recollected the nightmare.

Although the physicians encouraged Ashlea to terminate the pregnancy, she consulted a few other doctors in Orlando who told her that there is still hope to save her son, Times Now reported.

To reverse the life-changing diagnosis, the doctors suggested a treatment plan, which involved a highly advanced surgery to repair the baby's spine during gestation.

Ashlea underwent a C-section delivery on May 11, during which the medics successfully repaired the sizable lesion, or abnormality on the baby's back, and put the fetus back in the womb to grow until he will be developed enough for normal delivery.

The doctors have now put Ashlea on strict bed rest until her next C-section delivery at 37 weeks.

"Since the surgery, [doctors have] seen so much more movement and signs of any malformation in his brain are reversing," Ashlea said, adding that she could now feel the baby kicking his legs, and twisting his ankles.

Ashlea shared her story on Tiktok with a caption: "Birthing my baby for him to be put back in and 11 weeks later be born again," become viral since then. The video had garnered over 2.2 million views at the time of this writing.

Meanwhile, many viewers who are bewildered by the case have commented on her post. "Does that mean he has two birthdays??, a viewer wrote. "Did you get to see him before?" another asked.

"Incredible that we live in a world where doctors can do this. amazing. Wish you a quick recovery," another viewer commented on a follow-up video by Ashlea where she explained the case.