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>> THE GARBOSE FAMILY SPECIAL DELIVERY UNIT IS
A ONE-OF-A-KIND, FIRST-IN-THE-WORLD LABOR
AND DELIVERY UNIT DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO MOTHERS
OF BABIES WITH BIRTH DEFECTS.
>> BRYAN AND I FIND OUT THAT WE WERE EXPECTING ABOUT
THREE OR FOUR MONTHS AFTER OUR WEDDING.
>> YOU KNOW, TOLD THE FAMILY,
EVERYBODY WAS EXCITED.
WE WERE THREE MONTHS IN.
AND THEN WE HAD, YOU KNOW, THAT DAY WITH THE SONOGRAM.
>> OUR SON WAS TO BE BORN WITH A BIRTH DEFECT KNOWN AS
AN OMPHALOCELE, WHICH IS AN ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT.
AND HIS LIVER, HIS SPLEEN, HIS BOWELS,
AND HIS INTESTINES WERE OUTSIDE OF HIS BODY CAVITY.
>> YOU'RE ALMOST POWERLESS.
SO WHAT DO YOU DO AS FIRST TIME PARENTS?
YOU COULD ONLY DO THE BEST WHAT YOU COULD DO,
AND THE BEST WAS THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
OF PHILADELPHIA.
>> WE WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE MOST
ADVANCED CARE WHILE I WAS STILL PREGNANT AND THEN TO
BE ABLE TO DELIVER AT A STATE-OF-THE-ART,
YOU KNOW, NUMBER ONE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN
THE NATION AND GIVE OUR SON THE BEST CHANCE AT LIVING
A NORMAL LIFE FROM THE BEGINNING.
>> EVERY FAMILY WHO HAS CARE IN THE SPECIAL DELIVERY UNIT
WILL FIND AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS INCREDIBLY
SUPPORTIVE, WHERE THEIR QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED,
WHERE THEIR NEEDS, WHETHER MEDICAL,
PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL,
ARE MET BY AN INCREDIBLY MULTIDISCIPLINARY
AND COMPASSIONATE TEAM.
>> THE CARE FOR THAT BABY STARTS, AND THAT FAMILY,
STARTS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.
>> EVERYTHING IS BROUGHT TO THE FAMILY.
EVERYTHING IS BROUGHT TO THAT PREGNANT MOTHER
WITH THAT UNBORN BABY WITH A BIRTH DEFECT.
>> THE SPECIAL DELIVERY UNIT OFFERS AN INCREDIBLE
ADVANTAGE TO FETUSES WHO HAVE THE POTENTIAL
FOR HAVING DIFFICULTIES THE MOMENT THEY ARE BORN.
>> SO IT'S REALLY A COMFORTABLE SITUATION
FOR BOTH, I THINK, THE PATIENTS AND THE DOCTORS.