When Jennifer Sheffield went to the obstetrician after 23 weeks of pregnancy, the ultrasound gave only a very limited view of the fetus.
Sheffield’s morbid obesity meant the machine couldn’t get a clear image of a daughter who would later be born with the genetic disease Vacterl syndrome, characterized by a closed anus, a fistula from the trachea to the esophagus and vertebral defects.
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