>> I'd like to welcome you to our 20th annual
Fetal Family Reunion.
It's just remarkable, it's remarkable.
>> We wouldn't be here today for the celebration
if it wasn't for all of you and when I look
around this big tent, it's easy to say, once
again, this is my favorite day of the year.
It is our teams' favorite day of the year and
we aspire for this to be the favorite day
of the year for everyone here.
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>> We came all the way out here 
from Omaha, Nebraska.
>> From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
>> We came out here from 
Rahway, New Jersey.
>> Cleveland, Ohio.
>> This is the 20th Fetal Family reunion.
Since that time, we've had over 18,000 referrals
of pregnant mothers, carrying babies with birth
defects.
But it's great to see patients again; the
oldest patient is 20 years of age here.
Kids are going to college now. Then, you have the
little babies too who are just cute as a button.
>> This day is so important to us because
it represents the life that this, this staff,
this hospital gave our daughter.
We were told that she'd be in a wheelchair,
that she'd had severe brain damage, and we
came here to CHOP and they gave our daughter
a life that wasn't supposed to happen.
>> I haven't met my doctors that saved me
and so I kinda wanted to meet them.
>> Audrey's actually going to really meet
her doctors and surgeons that closed her spine
while I was still pregnant.
>> I was the 57th kid to have fetal surgery.
We always talk to the person that held me
first and she handed me to my mom.
So like we always take a picture and like
I'm like as tall as them now.
>> We're just so thankful that she's alive.
We came here last year on about a day's notice
and they saved her life; she wouldn't be here
if it wasn't for CHOP and Dr. Adzick and Dr.
Moldenhauer and the rest of the CHOP team.
>> I have never seen hospital who would invite
all of us on one day to come and be with each other.
So I think this is a great opportunity for
us to come back and really see what we've
been through and how far we've come.
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>> This is amazing.
I actually almost cried when we were walking
in just to see other children, other families
who went through what we went through.
>> It's so amazing to see that our life, our
daughter's life is not the only life that has
been changed drastically because of this program.
>> We sat down next to another family that
had a baby that had an SCT the month after
me, you know.
And to see the ... some of the first patients,
to see how much they're thriving, it's just great.
>> You come in, you get treated like royalty.
>> The care we've gotten here is just unparalleled
to ... compared to anywhere we've been before.
>> There is no other place like this on earth.
>> We're just so grateful for CHOP.
>> I thank them every day for these two.
>> If it wasn't for the team, there's no way
that we'd be holding her right now and she'd
be here.
>> I thank God for him because she wouldn't
be here, I don't know; he's great.
>> I hope that they continue for many years
doing this because they have no idea what
it means to all the families.
I mean, forever.
