Twice Born

Science and Nature Series / 1 Season

With exclusive access to an elite unit, where the production crew was embedded for 15 months, step inside the groundbreaking medical frontier that is fetal surgery. This gripping PBS mini-series that takes an intimate, inside look at the Special Delivery Unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where rare surgeries are done on babies still inside their mothers' wombs.

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Episode 2

S1 E2 / 54m 40s / TV-14

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.

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Episode 3

S1 E3 / 55m 11s / TV-14

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.

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