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<\/a><\/p>\nOn Tuesday, March 31 (check local listings), PBS premieres the documentary mini-series \u201cTwice Born: Stories From the Special Delivery Unit,\u201d <\/a>filmed at the fetal-surgery center at Children\u2019 Hospital of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the PBS press release (a preview is embedded below \u2014 and more video can be found here<\/a>):<\/p>\n GROUNDBREAKING FETAL SURGERY BRINGS JOY AND HEARTBREAK IN<\/strong><\/p>\n TWICE BORN Stories From the Special Delivery Unit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n PREMIERING TUESDAY, MARCH 31 ON PBS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 Emotional three-part documentary series features unprecedented access to patients and doctors at The Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Arlington, VA, February XX, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 PBS presents the gripping three-part documentary series,TWICE BORN Stories From the Special Delivery Unit<\/strong>, premiering Tuesday, March 31, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS. The series spotlights the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming stories from inside the world\u2019s leading fetal surgery center at The Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).<\/p>\n Produced by Trailblazer Studios,\u00a0TWICE BORN<\/strong>\u00a0is the first series to be granted exclusive access to awe-inspiring stories that play out daily inside CHOP\u2019s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and its Special\u00a0Delivery Unit. The series underscores how the unit has revolutionized prenatal care and how such delicate procedures come with serious considerations. The title refers to the center\u2019s groundbreaking procedures that allow doctors to operate on fetuses.<\/p>\n TWICE BORN<\/strong>\u00a0follows several families from around the country as they go through the emotional process of learning about medical challenges facing their unborn children, assessing the options of prenatal surgery and making decisions once their options are clear. Intimate medical consultations, agonizing decisions and triumphant celebrations are abundant. The show also gives viewers a look at CHOP\u2019s world-renowned and committed medical staff as they navigate surgical team meetings, patient consultations, operating room drama and their own sometimes-complicated home lives.<\/p>\n \u201cPBS is breaking ground again with\u00a0TWICE BORN<\/strong>,\u201d said Bill Gardner, Vice President, Programming and Development for PBS. \u201cViewers will be drawn into a never-before-seen, life-and-death world of high stakes decision-making and cutting-edge medicine. But it\u2019s the people on both sides of the story \u2013 the patients and the CHOP staff \u2013 who make truly memorable storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the three-part series, viewers share in several touching stories: Lesly, a young, single mother, journeys to CHOP from California because her baby has developed an aggressive tumor\u00a0in utero<\/em>\u00a0that threatens its ability to breathe or eat; Shelly and Bobby travel from Massachusetts after learning their baby has spina bifida, a debilitating condition that causes a range of problems including impaired mobility, hydrocephalus and a number of other lifelong challenges; Tina and Brion journey to the center from their home in Texas seeking hope for their unborn twins diagnosed with the rare and dangerous twin-twin transfusion syndrome; and Geneva and Reggie travel from North Carolina after their unborn child develops a life-threatening urinary tract obstruction.<\/p>\n CHOP\u2019s team of highly regarded medical experts included in this documentary are surgeons Dr. Scott Adzick, Dr. Julie Moldenhauer, Dr. Holly Hedrick, Dr. Mark Johnson and Dr. Nahla Khalek, as well as many dedicated nurses, specialists, patient advocates and others who defy skeptics to perform groundbreaking medicine and who struggle to maintain a balance between their intense work and their lives at home. For more information about the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at CHOP, visit\u00a0fetalsurgery.chop.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Emmy-winning documentary veterans Monica Lange and Bonnie Cutler-Shear together developed and created\u00a0TWICE BORN<\/strong>, with Lange serving as producer\/director and Cutler as co-producer\/editor. During filming, which spanned 14 months, the\u00a0TWICE BORN<\/strong>\u00a0crew was fully embedded at the hospital, capturing moments, conversation and procedures that have never before been seen on television and that viewers will find nowhere else.<\/p>\n PBS Distribution will release the DVD version of\u00a0TWICE BORN Stories From the Special Delivery Unit<\/strong>\u00a0on April 28, 2015. The DVD will be available for a suggested retail price of $24.99. The running time is 180 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n