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A newborn baby has fingers bent backwards and a chest indentation, indicating a possible life-threatening disease; baby Collin contracts alarming symptoms.

Concerned parents take their 3-year-old daughter to see a medical specialist when her motor skills begin to deteriorate; a woman struggles with extreme fatigue.

Doctors must work to solve a medical mystery after a woman gives birth to a baby girl that is afflicted with an obvious physical abnormality.

Doctors scramble to find the cause of a teenager's sudden kidney failure before she dies; an expectant mother's fetus is growing at an alarmingly slow rate.

A father battles for his life in a fatal struggle with meningitis, but is unsure if the doctors can help him; a child is born with a fatal disease.

A newborn infant exhibits signs of Down syndrome, prompting doctors to begin immediate testing; a newlywed wakes to insufferable nausea and disorientation.

After eating his once-promising life away, a college graduate turns to Dr. Now's weight-loss program in the hope of living a more productive life.

After using food as a way to cope with the death of her son, June has eaten her way to 600 pounds, and she decides to undergo gastric bypass surgery.

Gideon is a 650-pound man who has become dependent on his wife for doing everyday tasks, so he decides he needs to change his life.

Nathan's weight loss has allowed him to return to work even as his wife, Amber, struggles to get approval for a second surgery.

Robert and his fiancé Kathryn, turn to Dr. Nowzaradan, and tries to reverse his lifelong addiction to food that has left him bed-bound at nearly 900 pounds.

Octavia decides to seek Dr. Now's help and turn her life around, but she must choose whether she wants her best friend and worst enabler to be there for her.

Despite being mentally ready, a woman's body struggles to prepare for surgery; a man prepares to finally have his massive leg surgically downsized.

An overweight woman is determined to correct her poor eating habits, but she must also face her childhood trauma if she wants to lose the weight.

A baby is born during Hurricane Sandy; an Army soldier coaches his wife's delivery from Afghanistan; a baby is delivered in a mall parking lot.

A baby is born twice to correct a deadly condition; a woman goes into labor as the hospital is torn apart by a tornado; a father must save his baby's life.

A woman delivers while hailing a cab; a strict religious community will not allow the mother to go to a hospital; twin sisters have babies on the same day.

Extreme birth stories include a woman giving birth in an elevator, two truckers delivering a baby in a diner, and a baby with a prolapsed umbilical cord.

A baby is born during Hurricane Sandy; an Army soldier coaches his wife's delivery from Afghanistan; a baby is delivered in a mall parking lot.

A baby is born twice to correct a deadly condition; a woman goes into labor as the hospital is torn apart by a tornado; a father must save his baby's life.

A woman delivers while hailing a cab; a strict religious community will not allow the mother to go to a hospital; twin sisters have babies on the same day.

Extreme birth stories include a woman giving birth in an elevator, two truckers delivering a baby in a diner, and a baby with a prolapsed umbilical cord.

An overweight woman is determined to correct her poor eating habits, but she must also face her childhood trauma if she wants to lose the weight.