Baby born twice...what date would you class as her birth date???

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http://weirdnews.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=weirdnews&cdn=newsissues&tm=11&gps=88_185_1020_545&f=00&tt=3&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/06/eveningnews/main4161410.shtml Four months into Keri McCartney's pregnancy, doctors spotted a tumor growing on the baby's tailbone - a rare and, in Macie's case, fatal condition striking one in 35,000 babies The McCartneys found Texas Children's Fetal Center on the Internet - one of only a handful of hospitals in the world performing prenatal surgery. The tumor was stealing blood from Macie, weakening her heart. So, at 25 weeks, surgeons cut into Keri's abdomen, pulled out the entire uterus -- and then half of Macie. The tumor was the size of a grapefruit. "I felt like, 'whoa, this is huge,'" a surgeon said. "I mean, my hands are big and that tumor filled my hand." Surgeons carefully cut away the non-cancerous tumor, monitoring Macie's heart and pumping saline into the womb where the other half of her body was tucked inside. Once free of the tumor, Macie was placed back in the womb, where she recovered and grew for a record 10 more weeks. Aside from this scar on her backside, Macie is a strong newborn with a healthy future. Now, 14 weeks later, she's finally going home to Laredo Saturday.