In a Texas hospital this week, doctors performed a complex, high-risk, open-heart surgery on a 6-day-old boy born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare congenital condition that rendered part of his heart underdeveloped.
Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar waited in the hospital as the newborn, whom they named Rumi, underwent the first of three surgeries babies with the condition need very early in life, their lawyer told CNN.
When the California couple contracted last August via a surrogacy agency with McKenna West, a nurse from Alaska, to carry their child, few could have guessed the
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