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A miraculous new procedure to increase a premature baby’s lung capacity when their mother’s water breaks too early may provide the technology to save many fetuses enflicted with early water rupture:

Berlin - A German hospital is celebrating a world first after carrying out life-saving surgery that stimulated lung growth in a baby still in the womb.

Doctors at Bonn University Clinic feared that baby Miriam would die when her mother’s foetal membrane burst in the 20th week of pregnancy, removing the child’s protective liquid cushion.