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Here’s how Utah doctors operated on a fetus in the womb for first time – and how the baby is doing now

Abigail Rose’s parents and doctors celebrate “major milestone” a year after her spina bifida surgery.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alisha Keyworth, with her daughter Abigail Rose and and fiance, Nick Staten, hugs Dr. Janice Byrne a year after the first in-utero fetal surgery done in Utah that repaired Abigail's spina bifida repair at Primary Children's Eccles Outpatient Building, April 13, 2022. Doctors with the Utah Fetal Center performed the surgery on April 6, 2021.