A Rare Disease Causes a Mother’s Body to Attack Her Unborn Child. Now a Texas Doctor Has Found a Drug to Stop It.

Daisy Farrar loves swimming, watching Bluey, and collecting stuffed animals. Some days the four-year-old pretends to be a princess, wearing sparkly shoes and a pink dress with a tulle skirt while she roams her family’s wooded three-acre property in rural North Carolina. Other days she’s more into robots, playing with Optimus Prime figurines with her dad. “To me, she is perfect,” says her mom, Brandi Starling Farrar. It’s a sentiment any loving parent might express—but in Daisy’s case, the fact that she is a happy, healthy kid is nothing short of incredible.Daisy made history before she was born—she was the first person to receive nipocalimab, an experimental drug that helped her survive a rare fetal disease. Daisy and Brandi were among thirteen pairs of expectant…

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This article was originally published by Rose Cahalan at Texas Monthly (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/hdfn-fetus-nipocalimab-trial/).

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