Mother Delays Cancer Treatments So Baby Can Live

FoxNews ^ | Jan. 25, 2008 | FoxNews

[workerbee]

Expectant mother Lorraine Allard learned the devastating news that she was in the advanced stages of liver cancer when she was four months pregnant, according to the Daily Mail.

Allard, of St. Olaves in the U.K., had a choice: Delay treatment to save her baby, or terminate the pregnancy to save herself.

She chose the former, waiting until the fetus was viable before scheduling a Caesarean section.

"If I am going to die, my baby is going to live," Allard told her husband, Martyn, according to the Mail.

The baby came a week early and Allard, 33, gave birth on Nov. 18 to a healthy but premature boy she named Liam.

Exactly two months later, Allard died. She'd begun chemotherapy just after her son's birth. But in the end, it was too late.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Heroic.

[rom]

Well said.

[A_perfect_lady]

If she was in the advanced stages of liver cancer, there was no hope anyway. She definitely made the right decision.

[dadgum]

How sad. A truly self-less act of devotion.

[Thorin]

God bless this heroic woman and her unborn child.

[ECM]

More on this over here.

[workerbee]

Yes, but I'm willing to bet the pressure put on her to terminate this child was laid on pretty thick, anyway.

God bless her children and her widower and may she rest in His peace.

[ex-Texan]

*BRAVO* !

[workerbee]

Thank you — I should’ve done a more thorough search, but this one seems worth a double.

[ECM]

Yep, I agree :)

[jwalsh07]

No greater gift.

[jmj3jude]

What a saintly mother she was! May God Bless her and her child forever!

[agooga]

She has my deep respect.

[silentreignofheroes]

Now that is a Ma,,

[SuziQ]

Towards the end we knew things weren't going well, but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam."

God Bless this family, and the mother's brave choice.

[Redbob]

Dear Lord...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

What a sad story....

[Doctor Raoul]

Heroic indeed and selfless.

[Bear_Slayer]

My wife was pregnant with our youngest son and she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.

She waited til our son was born before getting treatment. Thankfully, she was not so advanced that it could not be quickly treated.

My son and my wife are alive today 16 years later.

She did receive tremendous pressure from doctors and her family to get an abortion. She would not.