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A premature baby girl is thriving months after she was saved by doctors who removed a rare spinal tumor weighing twice her weight at birth.
Baby Saylor was born to parents Rachel and Kieran Thomson of North Lakes, Queensland, three months early at Mater Mothers’ Hospital, which is Queensland’s flagship center for babies with complex cardiac and surgical needs.
The tiny infant was born weighing 1,025 grams (2.25 pounds) with a 2-kilo (4.4 pounds) sacrococcygeal teratoma—a tumor growing out of her tailbone. It’s a condition that is said to occur in just one out of 40,000 live births.
Saylor’s tumor was first identified in her 20-week scan, according to a statement by Mater Mothers’ Hospital. The Thomsons were told that their baby had a 25 to 40 percent chance of survival….