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Deer Park woman has miracle baby despite high-risk kidney condition

Kaylee Henriquez holds her newborn baby Mateo Bautista

Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Kaylee Henriquez holds her newborn baby Mateo Bautista at the North Shore-LIJ Dialysis Center in Manhasset. (March 21, 2013)

Kaylee Henriquez has had two high-risk pregnancies. But the second one, her doctors said, came close to being a medical miracle.

"This is about as high-risk as it gets," said Dr. Victor Rosenberg, a specialist in high-risk pregnancies at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.

Henriquez, 26, of Deer Park, has a rare, chronic kidney condition that has caused her twin waste-filtering...

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