Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born.

Last year, Brooks became one of about two dozen patients to receive a new in-utero cardiac procedure.

Lauren Klingsporn, 36, found out she was pregnant with Brooks two years ago on Halloween, she tells TODAY.com. She and her husband Alex Klingsporn, 38, were living in Dallas, Texas, with their two children, now 7 and 4.

Given her first two pregnancies were complication-free and her children were healthy, she expected her third birth to be uneventful.

The couple did genetic testing for all of their pregnancies. "We did the testing for Brooks at 12 weeks, (and) nothing came back," Lauren Klingsporn says.

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