Doctors have saved a baby’s life in utero with an aggressive, life-threatening brain malformation that could have led to heart failure, severe brain injury, or death after birth. Two months on, the baby’s parents are looking back at their daughter’s extraordinary story.
Filmmaker and photographer Derek Coleman, 39, and his wife, human resources professional Kenyatta Coleman, 36, live with their four children in Denham Springs, Louisiana.
Their daughter Denver’s survival has become a huge medical success story.
Healthy Denver at 1 month old. (Courtesy of the Coleman family)
An in-utero photo of baby Denver at 27 weeks and 6 days. (Courtesy of the Coleman family)
The Anxious Wait
“Within our first trimester we did genetic testing, just as a precaution, and our results came back low risk,” Kenyatta told The Epoch Times. “In the second trimester, we had an anatomy scan. There was nothing that would have suggested there was an abnormality with the baby’s brain and heart.”…