Patient stories

A family looks back on their child’s journey from a devastating prenatal diagnosis of sacrococcygeal teratoma, to hope

Emoni’s family relocated from Atlanta to be near Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia so she could get the expert care she needed immediately after birth.

Despite insurance obstacles, a family found hope at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment after learning their baby had a sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT).

Before Maeve was born, doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia performed fetal surgery to remove a huge tumor growing from her tailbone called a sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT).