An Arlington Heights woman has beat incredible odds not only to survive, but to thrive.
What Shelly Battista went through is daunting to say the least. But now, afterHer miracle started back in February 2020 when Battista felt a lump while she was breastfeeding her newborn daughter Emilia.
She went through chemo and had a double mastectomy, and it worked, but the chemo caused ovarian insufficiency. Now, before all her treatments began, Battista had her eggs frozen at Northwestern's Center for Fertility and Reproductive Medicine.Despite not having ovaries, she was able to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization. At her first ultrasound, Battista found out she was having identical twins.
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