A Bakersfield woman gave birth to a ‘miracle’ baby, after discovering she was pregnant while preparing her to have a 22-pound ovarian tumor removed.
Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA described the event as a “medical miracle.” Suze Lopez learned she was expecting after taking a required routine pregnancy test just before her scheduled surgery to remove a 22-pound ovarian cyst.
Suze Lopez found out she was pregnant just before having a 22-pound ovarian tumor removed. Cedars-Sinai
Lopez, a nurse herself, said she “was used to very irregular periods and some abdominal discomfort,” so she couldn’t believe that after 17 years of trying for a second child, it was actually going to happen, according to a press release from the hospital.
Days later, Lopez experienced stomach pains, so she and her husband, Andrew, headed to Cedars, where Dr. John Ozimek, director of Labor and Delivery, and his team ran tests and found she was experiencing a rare abdominal ectopic pregnancy.
Doctors at Cedars-Sinai say an abdominal ectopic pregnancy is extremely rare. Cedars-Sinai
Ozimek said doctors discovered “a nearly full-term baby boy in a small space in the abdomen, near the liver, with his butt resting on the uterus.” He also stated that it’s almost unheard of for a pregnancy that far outside of the uterus to continue to develop.
30 experts were in attendance to witness the ‘miracle birth.’ Cedars-Sinai
Doctors lifted the giant tumor so the rest of the team could deliver the baby. Cedars-Sinai
About 30 experts were in attendance for the surgery, witnessing doctors lifting the massive cyst out of the way so the team could quickly deliver the baby and hand him off to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit staff.
Once the baby was delivered, Lopez began hemorrhaging–thankfully, anesthesiologist Dr. Michael Sanchez was prepared and had already powered up a special machine that delivered 11 units of blood into her while doctors continued their work. Both mother and baby are doing very well post-procedure.
The baby boy was miraculously born with very few health problems. Cedars-Sinai
Mother Suze Lopez believe baby Ryu is here as an example to the world that ‘miracles do happen.’ Cedars-Sinai
The baby boy, named Ryu Lopez, weighed 8 pounds at birth and had very few health problems. Lopez says she focused on recovering quickly after the surgery so she could reunite with her baby boy.
Andrew says Ryu and Suze are his “miracles,” and Suze expressed that “God gave [her] this baby so that he could be an example to the world that God exists-that miracles, modern-day miracles, do happen.”