A mom-to-be with pulmonary hypertension knew that more than 50 percent of women with this life-threatening disease do not live to meet their babies. Yet, with her husband by her side, she decided that termination was simply not an option.
Jackie Zieman, 30, of Manhattan Beach in southern California, survived her pregnancy with the rare condition, and a crack team of UCLA medical specialists pulled off a delivery that was likened to a “lunar landing.”
