Posted on 08/05/2019 12:08:39 PM PDT by Morgana
Jeni Box was 13 weeks pregnant when she got what she called “the most devastating news of our lives.”
It was February 2018. Box, a Kansas City native living near St. Louis, knew that her husband, Jake, would be shaken to hear her crying over the phone.
“I’m OK,” Box, then 36, told him, trying to settle her nerves when he answered, “but we got really bad news about the baby. I need you to leave work.”
The Box family already included two boys, Kellen and Everett, ages 1 and 3. Soon her husband was by her side. She broke the news about their third child, still growing inside of her.
“It’s a girl,” she said of the daughter they’d name Libby Rose. “And she’s dying.”
Over the days that followed, they made a profound and difficult choice: abortion.
They knew the probable consequences of the baby’s diagnosis, trisomy 18, a rare genetic disorder with severe and almost always fatal abnormalities: small head, clenched hands, heart problems, organ problems, mental disabilities, growth deficiencies, a struggle to eat and breathe.
“Most babies with trisomy 18 are stillborn,” Box said. “Most likely, I would have delivered a dead baby. If she was still alive, most likely she would have died within hours or days of being born.
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Yes she is correct but sometimes these babies have been known to live a week or 5 years.
She does not know.
However lets say her baby lived 5 minutes to 1 hour. She can't love that baby for that length of time?
What is wrong with you? You can't hold the baby and say "I love you"? This child was given to you for just that short amount of time and you can't even show it love. What kind of monster are you?
I have found cats dying on the side of the road and gave them love their last dying moments of life but this woman can't do it for her own baby?
she might have been inconvenienced in dealing with is I am sure what those with no soul will post
I agree with you completely, I just do not understand and pray that people awaken to what they are doing
God is watching
Indeed. Sometimes too much information is a bad thing. My mom and dad lost a child before the rest of us were born. They loved her and mourned her passing after about a week of life. Christina was born with serious birth defects. Back then they probably had no idea until birth, 1950’s.
Today, immature and selfish parents make no sense.
Years ago a dear couple from my church found out their baby would not survive for long after birth....
....abortion never entered their souls
I was at the hospital when this beautiful baby girl was born.....
.....and the parents tenderly held her and loved her before God took her back home
I will never forget it
This couple now has 5 beautiful healthy children
Actually giving birth to a stillborn costs way more than an abortion. Not to mention how much more a live birth of a very sick newborn would be.
It’s always about the $$$ no matter how much they try to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.
I delivered a baby born with Trisomy 13. We held him for the 90 minutes he was alive and he died in my arms.
I remember asking my doctor if he had to tell many patients that babies would be born with this and he told me not many. Then I asked if they requested abortion because this was when the partial birth became popular in media circles. He told me if they requested an abortion he would tell them to look for another doctor.
I was so thankful I had a doctor who shared my beliefs.
Even worse there are many false positives. They may have aborted a baby who was perfectly healthy.
My son was diagnosed with a dual-vessel umbilical cord, usually an indication of severe genetic abnormalities. We didn’t care. He was ours; God gave him to us.
He’s 13 now. Diagnosed with NCCAH, but otherwise a super smart, wickedly funny, good looking kid. Mows the lawn, does the dishes, chills with friends, and keeps his room pristine. What a blessing!
I have FSGS, which has a very early onset. This is not something that they test for, even now, and results in kidney failure without treatment, and sometimes even with treatment as it did with me. It was all downhill from there, going so far as to cause osteoporosis, arthritis, and aortic regurgitation which is enlarging my heart. We didn’t find out about it until I was 16, but I spoke to a couple in Canada whose 1 year old had to begin treatment. They caught her illness early, but they were confident they could keep it under control. I don’t think they would have terminated even if they knew she was ill when she was still in utero.
My parents wouldn’t have either, and I was always ill as a kid, worse after beginning treatment. Now at 31 I’m falling apart, so I understand wanting to spare someone of pain, but if there is a chance that life will persevere then it needs to be given the opportunity. I guarantee that the impact of holding your child while it lives, if for even a short period of time, will make a positive impact and ease the grieving process.
Doesn't any dying person --- and we are all dying --- have a right to experience his fading moments in the arms of someone who truly loves him?
If you let him live, you'll be a mourner: but if you kill him, you're a murderer. "Blessed are they who mourn," says the Maker of all life; not they who murder.
Let Gd take her.
If you were told your precious two year old would die within a week, would you
A) kill her right away
Or
B) pray for her to survive as long as possible without artificial methods, and have her last days and hours in the love of her family?
Sad to choose #1 just because you “can’t handle” seeing your precious baby who has passed, or be with her while she transitions to another plane of existence.
I am really sorry to tears over your loss.
Yes, thank Gd you had a decent doctor. Too many all but push their patients to abort.
Your little boy got to feel that love and go onto his next journey. And you have no deep regrets like these who abort surely later will.
Thank you and abortion was never an option as I do not believe in it. God knew what He was doing and I trusted Him and my doctor.
You have a strong Mommy heart and soul.....
....Bless you for sharing
.....Bless your doctor!
Thank you!!
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