Doctors deliver ‘miracle’ baby while removing 22-pound tumor from mother

A Bakersfield woman gave birth to a “miracle” baby after discovering she was pregnant while preparing for a procedure to remove her 22-pound ovarian tumor.

Suze Lopez, a nurse, learned she was expecting after taking a required routine pregnancy test just before her scheduled surgery to remove the massive cyst at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, the medical facility announced in a Wednesday press release.

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai described the pregnancy as a “medical miracle.”

Lopez said in the release she “was used to very irregular periods and some abdominal discomfort,” so she couldn’t believe that after 17 years of trying for a second child, it was actually going to happen.

Lopez had stomach pains, so she and her husband, Andrew, headed to the hospital, where Dr. John Ozimek, director of Labor and Delivery, and his team ran tests and found she was experiencing a rare abdominal ectopic pregnancy.

Ozimek said doctors discovered “a nearly full-term baby boy in a small space in the abdomen, near the liver, with his butt resting on the uterus.” He also stated that it’s almost unheard of for a pregnancy that far outside of the uterus to continue to develop.

About 30 experts were in attendance for the surgery, witnessing doctors lift the monster cyst out of the way so the team could quickly deliver the baby and hand him off to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit staff.

Once the baby was delivered, Lopez began hemorrhaging.

Thankfully, anesthesiologist Dr. Michael Sanchez was prepared and had already powered up a special machine that pumped 11 units of blood into her while doctors continued their work.

Both mother and baby are doing very well post-procedure.

The baby boy, named Ryu Lopez, weighed 8 pounds at birth and had very few health problems. Lopez says she focused on recovering quickly after the surgery so she could reunite with her baby boy.

Andrew says Ryu and Suze are his “miracles,” and Suze expressed that “God gave [her] this baby so that he could be an example to the world that God exists-that miracles, modern-day miracles, do happen.”