Read how the innovative care of the AFCC has made the difference in the lives of babies featured in these news articles:
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Unborn Twins Saved By Medical Miracle
Featured on WBZ-TV
Medical Miracles at Children's Hospital Boston saved two unborn twins with a serious fetal situation. Lisa Hughes reports.
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Fetal Firsts
Featured in Pediatric Views
When Stephanie Villers started to have contractions at just 16 weeks gestation, her doctors discovered that her twin boys were suffering from twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Learn how a groundbreaking collaborative procedure saved them...
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New birth defect treatment studied
Featured in The Boston Globe
Researchers are trying to fix birth defects by using a fetus's own cells to grow replacement parts in the lab...
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Giving our tiniest patients a chance at a healthy heart
Featured in Newsweek
Meet Camryn Paske, now an active 1-year-old, who was diagnosed with aortic stenosis while in the womb....
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Sweet Smile of Success
From Children's News
In the spring of 2002, with Tricia just four months into her second pregnancy, their local obstetrician indicated that an ultrasound had revealed a sizable, solid mass growing from their baby girl's mouth. Scared and uncertain, the couple turned to Children's Hospital Boston to determine what this meant for their unborn child.
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When Nine Months is a Lifetime
From Dream magazine
The Methven family was devastated when they learned that their unborn son had a mass on his head. Was it cancer, a potentially deadly vascular anomaly or a hemangioma that would go away on its own?
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Find out more about the AFCC's milestones in care.
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Operation on Fetus's Heart Valve Called a 'Science Fiction' Success
From The New York Times
In September 2001, doctors at Children's performed the first successful fetal heart surgery in United States history...
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The graft that keeps on giving
From Dream Magazine
When Dario Fauza, MD, came to Children's from Brazil as a young surgeon, he fully intended to return home when his fellowship ended. But then he cared for a baby who changed the course of his career...
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