00:00How is it possible she didn't know she was pregnant?
00:02That's the question everybody has.
00:04I know it sounds insane.
00:06It is.
00:06It is insane.
00:07I had a 22-pound tumor and a full-term baby
00:10hiding behind it.
00:11If I saw this story on the news,
00:13I would say that doctor's making it up.
00:16That's how incredibly unbelievable this is.
00:21No cravings.
00:23No kicking.
00:25No nausea, vomiting like that.
00:27None of the symptoms that you would think
00:29a pregnant person would have.
00:31And that's why everybody's like, nah, nah.
00:34You had to have known.
00:35When I had our daughter, Kyla,
00:38I felt the baby kicking.
00:39I felt the baby moving.
00:41I had nausea, vomiting.
00:43I had all the symptoms of a pregnant person.
00:47Susie hadn't had a period in years.
00:48She was uncomfortable and nauseous for years
00:51from this really large 20-plus-pound mass
00:54that it is extraordinarily plausible
00:57to attribute all of that to that mass that she has.
01:01So this is a circumstance where it's very, very understandable
01:05that she didn't know she was pregnant.
01:06The first thing I said to her was,
01:07girl, you have a mass.
01:08And you could just see this big basketball-sized mass
01:11that's a little bit different than just a pregnant belly.
01:14First, all you see is black on the screen.
01:16And so I had to move her around and move her around.
01:18And finally, I could see parts of a baby or a fetus.
01:22Finally, I found what I thought, okay, here's a femur.
01:24I can see a femur, so the thigh bone.
01:26And that's a really easy, quick way
01:28if you can measure that bone
01:29to say how far along the pregnancy is.
01:31And I measured it, and it said 37 weeks, which is full term.
01:35Mind blown.
01:37We were high school sweethearts.
01:40We hadn't discussed kids until we got pregnant.
01:42Our firstborn was actually a miracle birth for us.
01:45Before I got pregnant, they had found ovarian cysts,
01:49so they removed my right ovarian cyst.
01:51And they kept the left one so that I could have potential children
01:55or just to keep my hormones.
01:58When I had our daughter, Kyla,
02:00she'd always ask for a brother or sister.
02:03Throughout the years, we were like,
02:05sorry, it's not happening, Kyla.
02:07You're going to be an only child.
02:09In the back of my mind,
02:10I always wanted to have a sibling for my daughter.
02:13I knew that if my left ovary was removed,
02:16it would eliminate all chances of having a second child.
02:19My cyst would grow one pound a year.
02:21Over time, I would see that it would grow,
02:23and everybody would say, it's time to get it out.
02:26But I wasn't feeling like going through surgical menopause
02:28at that point, so that's why I just kept it.
02:31So I'd have certain changes in my body
02:33where my stomach would grow exponentially larger.
02:36My feet would swell.
02:39I would start to get short of breath.
02:41I just figured the cyst was getting larger.
02:45If I had any kind of discomfort, I'd be like,
02:47oh, it's the cyst.
02:48I'd always blame it on the cyst.
02:49I would never think about anything beyond it.
02:51That was the only reason why I didn't discover this baby
02:54beforehand is because I just kept blaming it on the cyst.
02:58I finally told the doctor, hey, let's get this cyst removed.
03:01It's time.
03:02It's growing too big.
03:05So the doctor ordered for blood work and a CT scan.
03:08I did the blood work, and then prior to the CT scan,
03:11I did a pregnancy test.
03:13It was positive, and I couldn't believe it.
03:15Those give false positives all the time.
03:17So I checked it again, and it was positive,
03:20and it checked again, and it was positive.
03:21So I was like, okay, what do I do next?
03:24I found out on a Wednesday, and then I
03:28knew that we had a Dodgers game coming up on Friday.
03:32I got a little onesie, and I said,
03:35Baby Lopez coming soon, 2025.
03:37I was in disbelief, to say the least.
03:43On that same trip, we had a checkup at Cedars-Sinai.
03:46They were asking me, hey, have you had any prenatal care?
03:49Have you seen a doctor?
03:51When was your last menstrual period?
03:52I'm like, I don't know.
03:53I don't know any of that kind of stuff.
03:55Sorry, my stomach is growing.
03:56That's all I know, and I found out
03:57that I'm pregnant five days ago.
03:59I got a phone call from the residents,
04:01and their quote from the beginning was,
04:03it's a little bit of a mess.
04:05She just learned she was pregnant.
04:07She has this really big abdominal mass,
04:09and she doesn't really feel very well,
04:11and we're having a hard time seeing the baby.
04:13I was there in about 15 minutes.
04:15They called him in.
04:15He wasn't working that day.
04:17The residents were like, you have to see this.
04:18Then when I saw where the pregnancy was,
04:20and that she was full-term and that it wasn't inside the uterus,
04:24I immediately knew that she was not leaving this hospital
04:27before that baby was delivered.
04:29None of this should be happening to us.
04:31What we do, we tried so long ago to have a second kid,
04:36couldn't, and we're always told we would never have a second kid.
04:40The moment I saw the scan, I was a little bit in disbelief.
04:43There is a baby just sitting in that woman's belly.
04:46Why are their eyeballs looking straight at her liver?
04:49An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that is in a location
04:52that it is not supposed to be in.
04:54Ectopic pregnancies account for about 1% of all pregnancies,
04:59and abdominal ectopic pregnancies, which was the case with Susie,
05:03account for 1% of ectopic pregnancies,
05:06so a tiny, tiny minority.
05:07She ovulated.
05:08This egg was released from the ovary far from the fallopian tube.
05:13On the top portion, there's this very well-labeled big area
05:16that's called the tumor,
05:16and directly below that is the baby.
05:20The baby's eyeballs just kind of staring right at you on the screen,
05:23and then its little bottom sitting very conveniently
05:25right on top of the outside of her uterus.
05:28We don't know if there was ever amniotic fluid,
05:30in which case this baby may not have any lungs that function,
05:33in which case the baby won't be able to survive after it's delivered.
05:36And I believe I gave her, you know, a 50-50 chance.
05:39We talked about how even taking every single precaution,
05:42there's always still a chance that nature takes its course,
05:45and we cannot control the bleeding,
05:47and there's the potential that she doesn't survive the case.
05:49I was pretty scared at that point.
05:51The odds of everything coming out perfect was like tens of millions to one.
05:57I told Susie that we really needed to sit down and do some videos.
06:02Right before surgery, I did do a couple of recordings for Kyla in case the surgery didn't go well,
06:10and then I passed away.
06:11Hey Ky, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas.
06:14Happy graduation.
06:16So proud of you.
06:18I knew you could do it.
06:20I know that you're going to be great in your future.
06:24They asked me how long they wanted to do CPR on the baby,
06:27if the baby wasn't having any heartbeat or breathing.
06:32That was a really tough question that I had to answer.
06:36We assembled a lot of people,
06:39definitely around 30 people that were in there to help Susie and Andrew and baby Ryu.
06:43I can't emphasize enough that this was a team effort.
06:46It was a team that saved Susie.
06:48It wasn't just one individual doctor or nurse.
06:50As soon as that mass was out of the way,
06:52there was this baby, this eight-pound baby,
06:55just laying in her abdomen where it absolutely should not be,
06:59with an umbilical cord.
07:00And there was still an amniotic sac around this baby.
07:03They found that they just moved the cyst over
07:05and they were able to take the baby out in four minutes.
07:09This baby had a full head of hair, like full thick hair,
07:13laying in her belly, you know?
07:16It was just a really, just something that your brain can't quite comprehend.
07:20It was, it was, it was wild.
07:22And immediately after we delivered the baby,
07:24which is often the case, some of those vessels started to bleed.
07:27And so we had to work very, very rapidly to tie those blood vessels off methodically.
07:33The only way that we could get that bleeding under control
07:35was to essentially proceed with a hysterectomy.
07:38So an average person has about five liters of blood.
07:41And during this surgery, Susie lost about four and a half liters.
07:45If this would have happened somewhere that doesn't have these resources,
07:48there is no way that she would have survived.
07:50And very unlikely that the baby would have survived either.
07:54I wake up and I'm in the ICU and the baby's in the NICU
08:01and we're apart from each other.
08:03But I find out that it's a boy.
08:05It was the best feeling in the world to finally see this little guy
08:09who created so much drama and chaos.
08:12He's definitely a fighter.
08:14So in Street Fighter, there's a character named Ryu.
08:18And so we named him Ryu.
08:19His name is Jesse, and that means gift from God.
08:22And our child is definitely a gift from God.
08:25I went up to see him in the NICU.
08:26And I went up to see him every day and I would just put my hand on his little head
08:30because it was such a miracle.
08:34I hate saying miracle, but it really was.
08:38It really was this perfect little adorable baby.
08:41He was sort of the movie star of the NICU.
08:43He was the movie star of the hospital.
08:45He cried the whole way home, but that was okay.
08:47I was like, you know what?
08:49Even if he cries, his lungs work.
08:53Ryu is certainly the most miraculous and wonderful outcome that I think I've had
08:59in my years as a high-risk pregnancy specialist.
09:02I'm going to tell Ryu that he's definitely meant to be here.
09:06He brings a lot of people joy, and he completes our family.
09:10I'm going to tell him he chooses to join me.
09:11So, how do you know his birthday?
09:12You can see the last year, the last year.
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