When Julie MacMillan was about twenty weeks pregnant she learned her baby only had a 25 per cent chance of survival. A routine ultrasound revealed her unborn child had congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a serious birth defect that occurs when the diaphragm, the wall of muscle that separates the chest and abdominal cavities, doesn’t close…
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