'Ghost baby' survives birth without 80% of her blood

Three weeks before her baby was due, Jennifer Juarez knew something was wrong when she didn't feel her baby kicking anymore.

Jennifer went for a check-up and found herself quickly undergoing an emergency c-section.

It turns out the child suffered a fetal-maternal hemorrhage.

That resulted in little Hope Juarez being born without about 80% of her blood and with an opaque appearance.

Hope’s condition was so poor that doctors couldn't get a blood sample when they pricked her foot.

Hospital workers quickly gave the baby a blood transfusion, and she began to rally.

Dr. Marielle Nguyen at Kaiser Permanente in Irvine, California told ABC7 the condition is still somewhat of a mystery.

"We don't know what causes it. A lot of it is just it happens spontaneously. Sometimes the cause could be a motor vehicle accident, trauma, or where we have placental rupture, where the placenta suddenly just comes off the uterine wall."