Posted on 05/04/2017 8:48:38 AM PDT by Morgana
Baby Dexter was not supposed to be.
His mother, Lucy Hellein of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, was using a supposedly highly effective birth control device when doctors believe she conceived Dexter, according to the Daily Mail.
And when Dexter was born on April 27, the IUD coil that was supposed to prevent his life from being conceived came out, too. A photo of the newborn grabbing the contraceptive device has been catching people’s eyes on the internet. More than 70,000 people have shared it on Facebook, the report states.
Mirena, the contraceptive coil, or IUD, that Hellein used, is advertised as 99-percent effective.
According to the Mayo Clinic: “A T-shaped plastic frame that releases a type of progestin, Mirena thickens the cervical mucus to prevent sperm from reaching or fertilizing an egg. Mirena also thins the lining of the uterus and partially suppresses ovulation.” Some think the IUD also may act as an abortifacient by preventing a newly-conceived unborn baby from attaching to the womb.
Hellein told the Metro that she had the Mirena inserted last August, and then discovered she was pregnant with Dexter in December. Doctors said she likely conceived him just a few days after she had the device inserted.
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“I assumed I was only a few weeks along, but the ultrasound confirmed that I was already 18 weeks along,” she said. “My Mirena was nowhere to be found on ultrasound so my OB assumed that it had fallen out, but I wasn’t convinced.”
The news of an unplanned pregnancy often is followed by suggestions of abortion, but Hellein chose life for her son.
“Dexter was definitely meant to be,” she said. “Although he wasn’t planned, my family and I feel incredibly blessed.”
When Dexter was born last week, doctors found the IUD behind Hellein’s placenta, according to the report.
It is believed that nurses posed newborn Dexter with the contraceptive device in the hospital to highlight his unplanned — but not unwelcome — life. Hellein later shared the image on Facebook, where tens of thousands of people have viewed it.
Pro-lifers take varying positions on artificial contraception. Some argue that birth control can help reduce abortion rates by preventing unwanted pregnancies, while others argue that it leads down a slippery slope to abortion.
No matter what their position on birth control, pro-lifers agree that every baby’s life, planned or unplanned, is worth celebrating.
That happened to a woman who lived on my street when I was growing up.
Don’t you just love it when it happens?
LOL, probably an easier way to get that coil removed!
Please call it by the correct name, auto INcorrect. I never saw so many typos before that infernal device was invented.
Wow, it's like that saying, 'nature finds a way'. :)
Know a doctor who’s patients had terrible luck with IUD birth control. He referred to them as “Babies first toy”.
bump for later
Good point.
Great story. You were meant to be.
He reprogrammed the Kobayashi Maru.
As the mother of a “surprise” baby, I call it a special gift from God. My daughter has kept me anchored me for 35 years!
(And I considered myself doubly blessed when I lost my eldest daughter to cancer when she was only 36.)
You would need a much larger spring to do that - but then it would only oscillating a few times and then that baby would come flying out shouting Yahoo!!!
I had thought of that very scene, heh.
Dexter doesn’t look like the type to miss a meal, either.
I took progesterone to support my twin pregnancy. My children turned out just fine. Note tag line.
In fact, He already has. His parents should watch this child closely. I feel that God has a special purpose for Dexter.
Like Ghengis! He will be a conqueror!!!
HA HA HA!!!
Flippin hilarious.
Love it!
bzzzzt WRONG.
Progesterone is in the device to make the body thing it is ALREADY pregnant. That is because there is a LOT of progesterone in a pregnant womb. If you have low progesterone you lose the baby.
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