A miracle baby girl born without kidneys has defied the odds. Emmie Hope Mahoney was born in March 2021 without the vital organ and her mother, Andi Mahoney, was told her daughter would never survive.

The unborn baby “breathes” the fluid into their lungs, where it pushes open the air sacs and stimulates them to grow. Until recently, babies born without kidneys and the accompanying shortage ...

Most doctors said her baby, who would be born without kidneys, had no chance to survive. But Andi Mahoney said she refused to accept that fate, and her now 2-year-old daughter Emmie's fight ...

Abigail’s parents have said she is the first baby without kidneys to survive childbirth. A 2014 Hopkins news release called Abigail’s survival “a medical marvel.” In 2017, Hopkins and ...

When Mahoney was pregnant, her 20-week scan showed her baby had a condition called bilateral renal agenesis, meaning she didn’t have kidneys. “It’s universally fatal,” said Mahoney.

She was developing without kidneys. With renal agenesis (the absence ... to keep Emmie alive," Mahoney told USA Today. "My baby needed fluid to breathe." However, at the 34-week mark, Mahoney ...

The stories chronicled how his parents discovered before his birth that their fourth child had no functioning kidney. They were told to terminate the pregnancy or carry the baby to term to ...

A baby has unknowingly joined a selective club alongside just 1% of the world's population after she was born with four kidneys. Isis Eloah Ferreira Alves was born prematurely via C-section in ...

A baby’s kidneys usually mature quickly after birth, but problems balancing the body’s fluids, salts, and wastes can occur during the first four to five days of life, especially in babies less ...

The Brazilian tot was born with four kidneys -- an extremely unusual congenital anomaly. Jam Press Isis Eloah Ferreira Alves made quite an entrance when she arrived prematurely in 2022.