Mom Gives so `Baby Ivie' Can Live Kara Duncan Donates Part of Her Liver to 14-Month-Old Daughter

Evansville Courier & Press › August 03, 2005

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Kara Duncan, 25, has held her youngest daughter in her heart since the child's birth last year. Now, Connie "Ivie" Duncan -- affectionately known as "Baby Ivie" -- carries a part of her mother with her.

In surgeries Thursday at the University of Illinois Medical Center, the Evansville woman gave 25 percent of her liver to 14- month-old Ivie, who was desperately in need of a life-saving transplant.

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Mom Gives so `Baby Ivie' Can Live Kara Duncan Donates Part of Her Liver to 14-Month-Old Daughter

"We're just really happy that they both were able to survive it," said Rhonda Milligan, Duncan's sister and Ivie's aunt.

Both mot...

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