Florida baby ‘born twice’ after elaborate surgery involving partial delivery

A Florida infant is said to have been born twice after undergoing what was an innovative, likely life-saving surgery that involved a partial delivery weeks before his mother then gave birth to him. Cassian Joubert’s remarkable story was recently first told publicly by his mother and father – Keishera and Greg Joubert – in a 1 May video published on social media by the Orlando Health Women’s Institute, which employs the surgeon that led the baby boy’s prenatal operation. Keishera and Greg Joubert then recounted their and Cassian’s experience to various US news outlets, including Good Morning America ( GMA ), where the mother revealed her son would mark his first year of life with two birthdays. “We’re planning just a small party for his birthday, [the] anniversary of his surgery that saved his life – and then, of course, for his ‘birth’ birthday, we’re going to have another … bash for him there to celebrate a whole year,” Keishera told GMA. Keishera and Greg Joubert learned that she was pregnant with Cassian in January 2025. As Keishera told the Florida news outlet Wesh 2 News, the couple were “very joyful” about the fact that their two-year-old son, Mattias, would be getting a baby brother. But 19 weeks into her pregnancy, the Jouberts received grim news. Doctors discovered Cassian had congenital high airway obstruction syndrome, or Chaos, a condition which involves a thick membrane impeding a fetus’s airway. …