Suze Lopez walked into Cedars-Sinai ready for relief. For years, pain and pressure had traced back to a massive growth doctors planned to remove. She expected surgery. She expected recovery. Instead, she received the kind of news that stops time.

First, a routine pregnancy test turned positive. As a nurse, Suze didn’t celebrate right away. She worried about a false result or something far more serious. Then the pain spiked. So the team ordered a scan. That image changed everything.

Doctors saw an empty uterus. They also saw a benign ovarian cyst weighing more than 20 pounds. And then they found the shocker: a nearly full-term baby boy living outside the uterus, tucked into a small space in her abdomen near the liver.

Abdominal pregnancies rarely reach this point. They often end before anyone gets good news. Still, the hospital moved fast. A large team assembled. Specialists prepared equipment, blood products, and backup plans. Then they delivered the baby and removed the cyst in the same high-stakes operation.

Complications arrived immediately. Suze began to hemorrhage. However, the team responded within seconds and replaced significant blood loss.

In the end, Suze’s son arrived alive and strong, weighing about eight pounds. After years of disappointment, she left the hospital holding what she once only dared to imagine: her second child, safe in her arms.