There was some concern about our son’s wife’s pregnancy being a dwarf and they may want to terminate the pregnancy. She carried the baby to full term. She is now one of the most vibrant 12-year-old girls you’ll ever meet. She is a little bit small for her age but nothing abnormal.
And my humble opinion these people are terribly narcissistic.
My granddaughter had a baby who died after 4 months on life support. Never having the ability to process the necessary functions for the definition of self sustaining. I wrote about it on another post. The point is not that the baby was born or died. The point is, during labor, which commenced when the mother went into violent seizures, hitting her head on the bathroom sink on the way down. She was in a coma when the baby was delivered. My grandson did not know if she would live for a week. My granddaughter didn’t know she had the baby. The child had very little brain matter. The loved her unto death, and grieved heavily.
They want to have other children. They are told that it was a genetic defect, and that there is a 1 in 5 chance any child born to them will be born the same way. If they are to have another child, they would need constant monitoring of the baby and mother. If the same conditions reveal themselves during testings, they have a choice. What would you do?
Never have another child?
Have tests and make sure the baby is healthy?
If the baby is found to have the same genetic problem do you......
Abort it?
Carry it to term, and run the danger of the granddaughter dying, and the new baby dying after inability to draw air naturally, or lives for 4 months on a ventilator without ever opening his or her eyes?