Baby Born To A Mom With Cancer

32 year-old Lisa Peterson Bender was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, 11 weeks into her very first pregnancy. She decided to carry her child to term. She had four chemotherapy infusions during her second trimester, but stopped the drug treatment during December to allow her child to thrive and grow. Named after her favorite aunt a grandmother, Lisa had her daughter, Alice Virginia, four days before her due date. Alice weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19 and 3/4 with dark hair, her grandfather's nose, and a healthy, doctors confirmed. Doctors say that as many as 1 in every 1,000 pregnant women gets cancer, with about 3,500 cases identified in the United States each year. The number of women diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy is going up because more and more women delay childbirth until their older. Also, developing cancer doesn't mean great things for your chances to conceive. "Fertility problems are one of the most difficult things young cancer patients face." Lisa's daughter Alice is in great health, and will be monitored just like any other newborn child. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42441066