Twice Born: Stories from the Special Delivery Unit

This episode sets the stage for the emotional stories to come. Dr. Scott Adzick, Surgeon-in-Chief at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and a pioneer of fetal surgery, explains his own conviction: if you can get to babies earlier, while they are still inside their mothers, you can stop some of the damage of birth defects before it is too late.

Doctors remove the remainder of baby Lilly’s tumor. Meanwhile, couple Tina and Brion receive devastating news about their unborn twins. Get a close-up look at surgery on a baby in the womb — the first time ever in a major television broadcast — as Shelly and her baby undergo a procedure to repair the fetus’s spine.

Lilly undergoes plastic surgery to reshape her face, and Shelly delivers her baby girl, Luelle. Geneva and Reggie, a couple from North Carolina, visit the Children's Hospital to seek help for their unborn child who has developed a lower urinary tract obstruction.