Connecting 2 people one with lungs and other without/damaged

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I wonder what would happen if arterio venous shunt procedure is done between say a mother and child. Child has abnormal lungs that might improve overtime. Mothers arterial blood will go into child's venous blood and child's arterial blood back to mother. Of course having same blood groups.
 
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ECMO - https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007234.htm is the gold standard in the US now for preemies with lung/heart deficiencies. Consider that the shunt procedure has surgical risk for both Mom and Baby. Physicians are VERY risk averse on things like that. Unless it has had all the bejeebers tested out of it. So it might be something done where no ECMO is available. Maybe. I'm not a physician, so I do not know for sure.

AFAIK - Plus, arteriovenous shunt is a circulatory defect - an anastomosis of a person's artery with the adjacent vein. So I'm not sure how you got your terminology. Sometimes an anastomosis is created surgically like when a pancreas transplant is performed. The "outlet" of the pancreas is surgically connected below where the old sick pancreas is already connected. But I think I understood what you meant. If not, please correct me.