27-02-2020, 08:00 PM
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38 weeks is very late in the pregnancy to make a decision like that. I wonder if it would be slightly better for them to have a full term birth and see how that goes rather than it being their decision.Nature might take it's course.
On the other hand 18 is very young and having to care for a severly disabled child and even adult could be a long painful journey.
Very difficult, only they can decide.
27-02-2020, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by TessA
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38 weeks is very late in the pregnancy to make a decision like that. I wonder if it would be slightly better for them to have a full term birth and see how that goes rather than it being their decision.Nature might take it's course.
On the other hand 18 is very young and having to care for a severly disabled child and even adult could be a long painful journey.
Very difficult, only they can decide.
Sometimes they do know better .
27-02-2020, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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While doctors are not Gods would nt it be better if the parents didn’t have to make this decision ?Sometimes they do know better .
I'm glad the young man has someone to talk things through with, sometimes they can feel left out.
27-02-2020, 09:19 PM
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I agree with everyone in that this is one of the rottenest hands this family - the parents and the child - could possibly be dealt. As I sit and watch my 23 year old son eat his breakfast and read the paper I feel monumentally lucky and gut wrenchingly sad for this family at the same time. The only thing I can add is to again agree that it is only these two so young parents that can decide (with support) what to do.
27-02-2020, 09:57 PM
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That's so sad LQ. The same thing happened to friends, many years ago with their first child. They are devout Christians so carried the child full term. The baby lived only a short while, no brain or real skull. They needed to carry to full term and to have a natural death for faith reasons but she knew for months that it would end the way it did as she's a doctor. But to abort would have been unthinkable for them. I can understand why people want to carry on for ethical/religious reasons. But to wake up every day knowing the child is so compromised and may only live a short while is surely unbearable. My friends carried on to have two healthy children. They needed to let nature take its course. Either way it's a tough choice because at 38 weeks you do not get over the trauma and if you carry to full term and a child lives, then I would feel incredibly guilty for bringing such suffering into the world. You cannot win
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