I am 19 weeks 5 days pregnant, and I just found out Wednesday that my baby has a birth defect called anencephaly. This means that the baby did not form a brain. It just has the brain stem. They offered me the options of abortion or to go ahead and carry the baby. The thing is, if the baby is born, it does not have a chance to survive. It does not have a brain, and so it will just slowly die. They told me these babies rarely live longer than a few minutes, a couple of days at the most. In most instances, I do not agree with abortion. I just don't know if I can mentally handle giving birth to my baby and watching it die. It also cannot feel pain, and will never experience having emotion, feeling, or a personality of any kind. It is technically born unconciousI can't picture watching that baby take it's last breath and handing it over. I know it is the hardest decision I will ever make. I don't know what to do! Please don't leave any rude comments. This is hard enough.
2007-12-08
14:34:39
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